What shall it profit a man

Y'know, I've subtitled this LJ "light thoughts and gaming," and until now that's been a misnomer, and even now, this will only very briefly touch on gaming, in that just now I was looking on Bible Gateway for Mark 8:36. You know it--in the King James Bible, it runs,

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

See, I very much fear that tomorrow my character Joanna will have to quit her job saving the world because it's making her into a bad person, and that will probably be the quote she uses. So I was reading through Mark to get context for that, and I realized... Wait. Jesus is called the "Son of man".

Remember my post about Derbys? I'm thinking ahead to Halloween, when (unlike last Halloween) I'd like to have a costume that doesn't require me freezing my (already miniscule) tits off. It came to me last year--that Magritte painting of the guy with an apple for a face! I adore Magritte, and that's an iconic bit of his work, a fitting tribute. And that guy is wearing a nice warm suit.

Last night I was looking at that picture, to make sure I got an appropriate hat, and I noticed it was called "The Son of Man."

( The picture, and ruminations on its meaning )