Abraham's Daughter
May. 13th, 2012 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inverarityThe song playing during the closing credits of The Hunger Games was haunting and eerie, but I could barely make out the lyrics.
Turns out it is Abraham's Daughter by Arcade Fire, and once you know the lyrics, well, it wouldn't be a bad theme song for someone else's closing credits, would it?
Turns out it is Abraham's Daughter by Arcade Fire, and once you know the lyrics, well, it wouldn't be a bad theme song for someone else's closing credits, would it?
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Date: 2012-05-13 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-14 02:35 am (UTC)The poetic image is awesome, but on an historical quibble: Daughter has no name is more of a Roman custom than Hebrew. Roman male Peasants had 2 names = first name and surname eg Gaius Marius, Roman male middle class would have first name and two surnames eg Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman males aristos would have first name and lots of surnames. Roman women had no first names, they only had surnames.
It is a big deal for a Jewish woman to have no first name.
It is commonplace for Roman women.
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Date: 2012-05-14 11:36 am (UTC)