person
Saul
also: Саул
The first king of Israel, whose jealous persecution of David supplies Fendrikov's simile for Galkin's irrational enmity.
Reading notes
- The Examination for Rank §10 like Saul
The first king of Israel, whose jealous persecution of David (1 Samuel 18-24) supplies the folk-idiom for irrational, escalating enmity that Fendrikov reaches for here.
- Lights §13 to do battle with Saul or David
Saul and David, first and second kings of Israel, both fought campaigns against the Amalekites and Philistines in the historical books of Samuel; von Steinberg's image supposes the lights are an ancient army "waiting for morning" to fight one of these two kings, reinforcing the sense of a scene frozen just before a battle that never comes.