"… confusion and marvel are properly operations
of God and not of man." — Borges, 1962, in
"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths."
Related reading — Headline for a story by Martin Weil
in The Washington Post yesterday evening:
"Cool and gray, Friday seemed nothing like
Washington in August.
Temperatures fell far below normal, on a day that
appeared without sunshine.
August 1, 2025 at 7:21 p.m. EDT"
Weil's conclusion . . .
"It was a day that gave a glimpse of the sort of conditions
that may characterize summer in other places, or here at
other times, but that in the nation’s capital, on the first day
of August, seemed an atmospheric rarity, almost a marvel,
made freely available to all."