Righteous Woman and Inscrutable Man

Righteous Woman looked out through the muslin curtains as the sun sank into the far distant hills. The light danced away towards the vanishing sun like sheep being called home by their shepherd at the end of a long day. She sighed contentedly, looking over at her new fiance, Inscrutable Man. He was deeply ensconced in a book and had been for some time. She wandered around the room, lighting the candles. Inscrutable Man startled her by glancing up suddenly from his book and saying: "…there is not a correspondence and similarity of being, an analogia entis. The being of God cannot be compared with that of man. But it is not a question of this twofold being. It is a question of the relationship within the being of God on the one side and between the being of God and that of man on the other. Between these two relationships as such – and it is in this sense that the second is the image of the first – there is correspondence and similarity. There is an analogia relationis."

"Yes dear. How very remarkable!" soothed Righteous Woman. Inscrutable Man smiled glassily and returned to his book. Righteous Woman congratulated herself on a far more suitable match with Inscrutable Man than Physically Magnificent Man. Magnificent Man was always doing things and not caring about the ethical motivation and consequences. It was impossible for a responsible woman to provide sufficient moral guidance for such a creature! Inscrutable Man read and made obtuse comments. He needed no moral guidance for he had no relationship with the real world. He barely recognised his own face in a mirror. Smiling, she picked up her embroidery and making small, neat stitches, contemplated this match made in heaven!

(Thanks CP. This was a truly satisfying idea)