and Design
Headline from a local newspaper this morning:
St. Thomas Aquinas Awards
in Trial on Intelligent Design
Taken together, these headlines suggest that the following link (pdf) may be appropriate for today:
Neutral Evolution
and Aesthetics:
Vladimir Nabokov
and Insect Mimicry.
Related material
on Nabokov and theology:
Today’s birthday:
Tilda Swinton,
angel in
“Constantine.”
“Gnostic also is the preposterous stage-direction at the end of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Drama of Exile…
The stars shine on brightly while ADAM and EVE pursue their way into the far wilderness. There is a sound through the silence, as of the falling tears of an angel.
‘How much noise,’ inquires G. K. Chesterton with brutal common sense, ‘is made by an angel’s tears? Is it a sound of emptied buckets, or of mountain cataracts?'”
— Dorothy Sayers,
The Mind of the Maker, Chapter 10