I'm intrigued that you chose those two possibilities, because we've been talking about promises in literary theory class and I'm interested in the interpretation of them. A threat, really, is only a promise with negative or harmful connotations--you can promise to do someone harm, but cannot threaten to do someone good in a non-ironic sense. So maybe the most fundamental of all human interactions is the promise? And the earth was without form, and void. Nothing exists without promise? I dunno. I'll have to think about it more.
And now that I've rambled and gone all theory-geek and quoted the Bible at you (which is not meant to frighten you off, because I'm not a scary Christian and not even really a Christian at all), I will say:
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I'm intrigued that you chose those two possibilities, because we've been talking about promises in literary theory class and I'm interested in the interpretation of them. A threat, really, is only a promise with negative or harmful connotations--you can promise to do someone harm, but cannot threaten to do someone good in a non-ironic sense. So maybe the most fundamental of all human interactions is the promise? And the earth was without form, and void. Nothing exists without promise? I dunno. I'll have to think about it more.
And now that I've rambled and gone all theory-geek and quoted the Bible at you (which is not meant to frighten you off, because I'm not a scary Christian and not even really a Christian at all), I will say:
Thank you. :)