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Logocentric Theology

“Logic is all about the entertaining of possibilities.”

— Colin McGinn,
Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning,
Harvard U. Press (See yesterday’s entry.)

“God is the sum of all possibilities.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer, according to
the Associated Press “Today in History“
feature for today, March 30, 2005

“A probability space is a measure space with total measure one.”

— Gregory F. Lawler, Probability Notes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”

— Deuteronomy 6:4

For other illustrations of logocentric theology, see

Matrix of the Death God (May 25, 2003),

Transcendental Meditation (July 30, 2003),

and, for Warren Beatty’s birthday today,

Graphical Password (April 27, 2003).

Bright
Star

Click on star
for background.

Camille Paglia, The Magic of Images:

“Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them…. The new generation, raised on TV and the personal computer but deprived of a solid primary education, has become unmoored from the mother ship of culture.”

A Google search on plato cave jesus tomb yields the following:

Parched with thirst am I, and dying.
Nay, drink of Me, the ever-flowing Spring….

— Ancient tomb prayer

Those with opinions on the Schiavo case may interpret these words as they please.  See also the previous entry.

“George F. Kennan, a diplomat and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who formulated the basic foreign policy followed by the United States in the Cold War, died last night at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 101….”

Midnight Drums for Larry

The Harvard Crimson, March 16:

"Voting by secret ballot in a Faculty meeting at the Loeb Drama Center, 218 faculty members affirmed a motion put on the docket by Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, stating that 'the Faculty lacks confidence in the leadership of Lawrence H. Summers.' "

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences:

Professor Matory is "a renowned expert on Brazil and on the Yoruba civilization of West Africa, which is world famous for its religious complexity and artistic creativity. He is equally noted for his study of such Latin American religions as Haitian 'Vodu,' Brazilian Candomblé, and Cuban Santería…."

The Harvard Crimson, January 7, 2005:

"I came here with the goal of dancing with Larry Summers, and I did it," Chinwe U. Nwosu ’08 said. "He’s a great dancer."

"Now I can say that 'Bootylicious' is our song," she added.

"Atabaque – a large tom-tom
that is used in Afro-Brazilian
religious celebrations"

— The Sounds of Samba
at Yale

— From Log24.net, Oct. 16, 2004:

Midnight in the Garden
continued

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Ides of March at Harvard

Summers Fails
Faculty’s Confidence Vote

And the faculty fails history’s.

Religion at Harvard

The Children’s Hour

Harvard Magazine,
Sept.-Oct. 2004:

“With the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts, Harvard couples were among those who took vows…. Lowell House master Diana Eck (left) and co-master Dorothy Austin tied the knot in Memorial Church on July 4, with Rev. Peter Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, officiating.”

Once in Love with Amy

Harvard’s Lowell House: “In the Dining Hall are portraits of President Lowell and his wife; his sister Amy Lowell (Pulitzer prize winning poet, and a lover of scandal…)….”

Today’s Harvard Crimson: “Stone joined members of the Foundation for lunch yesterday in Lowell House before delivering her remarks at Memorial Church last night…”

Site on Shakespeare’s Sonnets:

nothing – the word had sexual connotations, as a slang word referring to female sexual parts. Compare Hamlet:

HAMLET   Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
[Lying down at OPHELIA’s feet]
OPHELIA  No, my lord.
HAMLET   I mean, my head upon your lap?
OPHELIA  Ay, my lord.
HAMLET   Do you think I meant country matters?
OPHELIA  I think nothing, my lord.
HAMLET   That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs.
OPHELIA  What is, my lord?
HAMLET   Nothing.

— Hamlet, III.2

Clifford Modules

Women’s History Month, continued:

Final Arrangements

Trude Rittmann, an Arranger
of Broadway Favorites, Dies at 96

Ms. Rittmann died on February 22.
For related arrangements, see the
five log24.net entries ending on that date.

“It’s quarter to three…”

Ch-ch-Changes

“Everything changes but the law of change does not change.”

— Khalifa Abdul Hakim

“He who has perceived the meaning of change fixes his attention no longer on transitory individual things but on the immutable, eternal law at work in all change. This law is the tao of Lao-Tse, the course of things, the principle of the one in the many.”

— Richard Wilhelm (1923), introduction to the Book of Changes

3/16 Continued

The New Yorker, issue dated March 7, 2005, on Hunter S. Thompson:

“… his true model and hero was F. Scott Fitzgerald. He used to type out pages from ‘The Great Gatsby,’ just to get the feeling, he said, of what it was like to write that way, and Fitzgerald’s novel was continually on his mind while he was working on ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,’ which was published, after a prolonged and agonizing compositional nightmare, in 1972. That book was supposed to be called ‘The Death of the American Dream,’ a portentous age-of-Aquarius cliché that won Thompson a nice advance but that he naturally came to consider, as he sat wretchedly before his typewriter night after night, a millstone around his neck.”

— Louis Menand

“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
— Daisy Buchanan in Chapter I of The Great Gatsby

“Thanks for the tip, American Dream.”
— Spider-Girl, in Vol. 1, No. 30, March 2001

Log24.net, Feb. 21, 2005: