"Lenin lives" (was Mr. Mayakovsky too died in the gulag)

[William Ryan]

This is certainly the closest fit so far - but which of Lenin's Jewish 
soratniki would have been so blasphemous? These triple formulas to 
express eternity seem to be a topos in Judeo-Christian scripture. One 
might add from the Doxology in many Christian liturgies, '... as it was 
in the beginning, is now and ever shall be'. The tricolon more generally 
as a rhetorical device is also common (e.g. Christus vincit, Christus 
regnat, Christus imperat). The reinforcing power of triple statements is 
very common in folklore and magic - and even football chants (my 
favorite: 'he shoots, he scores, he eats labradors' - of a certain 
Korean footballer).

Will Ryan

Robert A. Rothstein wrote:
> Charles Mills wrote:
>> I can tell we've got some people who need to get out to church more 
>> often!
>> ;-)
>>
>> "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, 
>> which
>> is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."  --Revelation 
>> 1:8
>> KJV
>>
>>
>>   
> Or to the synagogue (as Jules Levin implied):
>
>    V'hu hoyo v'hu hove   And He was, and He is,
>    V'hu yiye b'siforo.      And He will be in glory.
>       ("Adon olam")
>
> Bob Rothstein
>
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