needles and fruit.

Went to the osteopath tonight.Now usually the idea of a fully grown man pressing all his weight on top of your body equates with one thing only but in this instance it meant that he was rocking back and forth on top of me trying to get one of my lumber verterae to click back into place.I knew I would have to have some work done as I've put my poor back through a lot over the past few months but the muscle surrounding the joint was so tense that he couldn't get it to budge and I had to have acupuncture in order to loosen it up. More ouch! but considering that over the years I have *volunterily* had various parts of my antomony pierced I guess acupuncture should be a walk in the park by comparision.Anyway the upshot is that what should have been a routine six-monthly check up became a major session and I've got to go back next week so that he can actually do the work he intended to do today.Oh well it keeps me functioning in an upright position so it is all worth it in the end.Now on to the topic of the day. Pomegrantes. In particular Pomegrantes as represented in the work of Bosch.For those of you who never never seen the whole TGOED picture go here...http://athena.english.vt.edu/~baugh/bosch/D-C-Fr-Zoom.htmThis is the centre panel of the three and the one that features said fruit down in the bottom left hand corner. If you look *really* closely you can see the pearls.Other than finding out a while back that the pearls tumbling out of it represent the souls of fallen angels (not an unreasonable assumption given that this part of the tripych shows Creation given over to the 'sins of the flesh' AFTER the fall of Adam and Eve) I've also done some more digging around.This of course links back to references to pomegrantes in biblical scriptures. The fruit is mentioned many times. (Its classed as a 'tropical' fruit and so would have been an actual native fruit in Palestine)The Oxford English Dictionary refers to it as 'many seeded apple' so it might even have been a pomegrante that Eve ate from as I'm not sure that apples are indiginous to that region - although it WAS the graden of Eden containing EVERY seed bearing fruit. But maybe a pomegrante was what the writers of the Scriptures saw when they envisioned an apple.Reliefs of it are mentioned as adorning the temple in Jeremiah and the priests robes in Exodus. So it was evidently held in great esteem and with great import.Hence of course its appearance in Bosch's imagery given how he was so fascinated, can I say obsessed, with religious icons and symbolism.I also looked for any interpretations of pomegrantes in dreams but sadly came up empty handed.As for pearls, again they have Biblical references...'pearls before swine' etc that is do not throw that which is holy before swines.Therefore if pearls are holy then to aline them with fallen, but still holy, angels would also fit.Lastly to tie it all back in with SG. I'm pretty certain that this then leads to ToP - re-listen to the words carefully...'we twist and turn where angels burn...' Angels burning in a hell we call Earth? 'fallen soliders = fallen angels?????Maybe I'm trying to read too much into it but one of them at least - and my money is on it being Darren simply because of his interest in the supernatural, imagery, meaning and, I hate to say it cos its sounds snobby, but the fact that he went onto higher education and might well, as I suggested in 'Stay 19', been exposed to his work via his Uni studies - is familiar with the painting and the ideas surrounding it.Or maybe someone just mentioned to them in passing one day *shrugs*But it obviously meant enough to them/caught their imaginations enough to merit a picture on the inside of their debut album. And for an adapted version of the title of painting to become the name of their debut tour.By the way if anyone has a copy of the black and white covered album and can confirm what exactly is depicted in the inside shot I'd be very interested to know. I gave my copy to my sister when I 'upgraded' to TFOED CD.So...seeing connections that just aren't there? maybe. but I am always intrigued to make connection and learn from whence authors/singers/playwrights get their ideas and inspiration from.ok...that's enough for one day.Class dimissed.But my research goes on...