Re: silly trivia contests

[Hayyim Feldman <hf...>]

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Robert Cohen wrote:

>Re the Dylan quotes:  [...] I had in mind a more obscure quotation--
>obscure in the sense of not transparent (maybe I mean "opaque"):  It has
>no obvious Jewish reference _at all,_ yet I think has profound Jewish
>implications (maybe or not for Dylan himself--can't say). I'll give one
>hint; then (if I don't get any responses, or any correct ones) give the
>answer a week from today and bring this contest to a merciful close--only
>a week or two after the Independent Counsel statute expired!  Here's the
>hint:  EITZ CHAYIM.  Good luck everyone! 

I.
Of war and peace the truth just twists
Its curfew gull just glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides
With his candle lit into the sun
Though its glow is waxed in black
All except when 'neath the trees of Eden

(But this is more likely Eitz HaDa'as.)

II.
Beat a path of retreat up them spiral staircases
Pass the tree of smoke, pass the angel with four faces
Begging God for mercy and weepin' in unholy places
Angelina

(But "angel with four faces" is too explicit for your description.
So, my best guess...)

III.
...Strap yourself
To the tree with roots
You ain't goin' nowhere
Whoo-ee! Ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!

(Git Shabbes!)

-Hayyim

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And may the spirit of this song, 
may it rise up pure and free. 
May it be a shield for you,
a shield against the enemy.

                        -Leonard Cohen, "Lover Lover Lover" (1974)
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