“Clearly, you’ve never made an omelette.”
- Ultron
(Who Doesn’t Eat, and was born Yesterday.)
[ So, y’know — neither has he. ]
{ That’s Actually The Joke. }
First you break something,
First you break something,
Then you make a solution,
Then you craft something,
Then you resolve it —
And then you break it again.
And then you have made a RING.
See Doctor Who : The Demons of The Punjab —
it's not always just a circle,
or closed-loop in Space ....
It's also an Alchemic circle of TIME: • Breaking • Dissolution • Making • Resolution / Coagulation • Breaking • Yasmin Kahn, The Damsel in Our Lady's Fam receives as a bequest from her beloved elderly Granny, a broken wristwatch with a smashed face, who tells her that it was a memento and a wedding present from the time when she was the first woman ever married in Pakistan, a story Yaz has never heard before and realises cannot relate to her Grandfather and the Family History She THINKS she knows — Breaking Yaz then surmises, (correctly, it turns out) that her Granny must have had a secret first marriage, which she knows the date and location for - a village outside of Lahore on Partition Day, 1947, and asks Our Lady, The Doctor for permission to visit that moment in time, and learn the hidden deeper Truth of her family heritage - as such, she and her Fam end up (annonymously or psudononymously participating in the secret marriage, with The Doctor officiatiate between the happy, yet doomed Hindu-Muslim spouses, each stood on either side of the stream which was to become (on that day) the border between the new States of Pakistan and post-Raj India - The Doctor cuts a length of rope, where it falls into The Stream - Disoultion The Bride then retrives the rope from the waters, and requests that her future grand-daughter assist in the traditional Hindu rite of the binding of the spouses hands, which she does - Making Moments earlier, just before The Bride had retrived the rope and made her request, Our Lady had meekly opined "I'm not sure how we formalise this.", and seconds later, the question resolves itself -
It's also an Alchemic circle of TIME: • Breaking • Dissolution • Making • Resolution / Coagulation • Breaking • Yasmin Kahn, The Damsel in Our Lady's Fam receives as a bequest from her beloved elderly Granny, a broken wristwatch with a smashed face, who tells her that it was a memento and a wedding present from the time when she was the first woman ever married in Pakistan, a story Yaz has never heard before and realises cannot relate to her Grandfather and the Family History She THINKS she knows — Breaking Yaz then surmises, (correctly, it turns out) that her Granny must have had a secret first marriage, which she knows the date and location for - a village outside of Lahore on Partition Day, 1947, and asks Our Lady, The Doctor for permission to visit that moment in time, and learn the hidden deeper Truth of her family heritage - as such, she and her Fam end up (annonymously or psudononymously participating in the secret marriage, with The Doctor officiatiate between the happy, yet doomed Hindu-Muslim spouses, each stood on either side of the stream which was to become (on that day) the border between the new States of Pakistan and post-Raj India - The Doctor cuts a length of rope, where it falls into The Stream - Disoultion The Bride then retrives the rope from the waters, and requests that her future grand-daughter assist in the traditional Hindu rite of the binding of the spouses hands, which she does - Making Moments earlier, just before The Bride had retrived the rope and made her request, Our Lady had meekly opined "I'm not sure how we formalise this.", and seconds later, the question resolves itself -
Resolution/Coagulation
Muslim Brides and Grooms exchange gifts with each other's families, so
the Groom removes his treasured wristwatch and hands it to Yaz for
safekeeping - recoiling in shock that it is indeed The Same
wristwatch which started this whole adventure off in the firstplace,
Yaz fumbles the item in her had and drops it, facedown onto the stoney
creekbed where it promptly smashes on a rock and ceases to move, frozen
at the nuptual sealing moment in time forevermore and sealing The
Marriage; a remarkable number of cultures and traditions mark the
sealing and solemnising of a marriage ceremony by ritual breakage, the
most well-known include the Jewish breaking of a glass (in Schindler's
List, they use a lightbulb), or the Greek tradition of the breaking of
plates - Breaking
And then you have made a RING -- in Time, and Space.
“The story is good enough in itself.
It is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; and it has virtues that would be lost in a summary, though they can be perceived when it is read at length: good scenery, urbane or humorous dialogue, and a skilfully ordered narrative.
Of this the most notable example is the long Third Part with its interlacing of the hunting-scenes and the temptations.
By this device all three main characters are kept vividly in view during the three crucial days, while the scenes at home and in the field are linked by the Exchange of Winnings, and we watch the gains of the chase diminish as the gains of Sir Gawain increase and the peril of his testing mounts to a crisis. But all this care in formal construction serves also to make the tale a better vehicle of the ‘moral’ which the author has imposed on his antique material.
He has re-drawn according to His Own Faith his Ideal of Knighthood, making it Christian Knighthood, showing that the Grace and Beauty of its courtesy (which he admires) derive from The Divine Generosity and grace, Heavenly Courtesy, of which Mary is The Supreme Creation: The Queen of Courtesy, as he calls her in Pearl.
This he exhibits symbolically in mathematical perfection in the Pentangle, which he sets on Gawain’s shield instead of the heraldic lion or eagle found in other romances.
But while in Pearl he enlarged His Vision of His Dead Daughter among The Blessed to an allegory of The Divine Generosity, in Sir Gawain he has given Life to his ideal by showing it incarnate in a living person, modified by his individual character, so that we can see A Man trying to work The Ideal out, see its weaknesses (or Man’s weaknesses).
