On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> I thought it was Biblical, not Arthurian.
It may be. I think Isaiah writes about God's desire for Israel to be a
light unto the nations, and listening to some of America's more Biblically
fixated rhetoriticians, you'd think that America is the Israel Isaiah
foretold.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure (not 100%, though) that the musical
_Camelot_ refers to Caemlot as a shining city on the hill, meant to be a
metaphor for Kennedy's America. I think there's a line about how Camelot
was, for one brief moment, a SCotH--but I don't have an exact quote at
hand.
Both could be true, of course, with Camelot referencing the image in
Isaiah....
> Of course, I can't remember names of sources to back that up, and if I get
> up to dig out the concordance Sammy will pick that moment to begin
> screaming and I'll have to deal with *that* and will forget what I was
> about to do.... Plus I'm hungry and really ought to fix myself some food
> while he's being quiet. :P
Go! Go! Go! :-)
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
