Monday, September 12, 2011

William Bradford and Quentin Tarantino?


As we were discussing Bradford today, there was one passage we didn't get to--a passage that makes me think of Quentin Tarantino:

"Thus it pleased God to vanquish their enemies, and give them deliverance; and by His special providence so to dispose that not any one of them were either hurt, or hit, though their arrows came close by them, and on every side thme, and sundry their coats, which hung up in the barricado, were shot through and through." p.119, from Chapter X of Book I.

Does this not remind you of the scenes in Pulp Fiction, first when Jules and Vincent kill Brett, after mis-quoting a Bible verse with some language very close to Bradford's, and then they are amazingly not hit by a gun-full of close-range shots--then later in the film when they discuss this "miracle?"

Clearly the discourse of providence co-mingled with violence is still part of American/U.S. culture today.

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