There's not a question to be had in the Epistle lesson (2 Cor 6:1-13), and, in keeping with the caution at the beginning of last Sunday's Helps, we should not construct
a Procrustean bed to force this lesson into a single theme with the other two.
Americans suffer in
a Procrustean bed of financially debilitating, unconstitutional federal laws and court decisions: the Civil Rights Act, Brown v.
In his plea for the role of consumers and entrepreneurs, Goldthwaite works Giovanni Pontano's Trattati delle virtu sociali (1498) onto
a Procrustean bed by reading this five-part discussion as an early consumerist primer.
To end with my beginning: Long in a gallery is Long in
a procrustean bed, far from the eternal verities of nature and solitude that he loves, just another post-Minimalist artist whose novel signature material happens to be mud, and, more esoterically, walks.
The virtue of his paintings is that they undermine the naive effect of transparent pattern that was a staple of the pattern painting of the '70s--the sense of pattern as
a procrustean bed into which painterly gesture must fit--without giving gesture absolute authority, that is, without demanding that the grid unconditionally surrender to and subsume its geometry in gesture.