The Wanderer:
11:32:56
11:32:56
“What on earth is
a concrete universal?”
— Robert M. Pirsig
“James Joyce meant Finnegans Wake to become a universal book. His universe was primarily Dublin, but Joyce believed that the universal can be found in the particular. ‘I always write about Dublin,’ he said to Arthur Power, ‘because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world’ (Ellmann 505). He achieved that goal in Ulysses by making Bloom a universal wanderer, the everyman trying to find his way in the labyrinth of the world.” —The Joyce of Science
Related material:
From A Shot at Redemption—
The Past as Prologue:
Grand Rapids Revisited
Grand Rapids Revisited
John Constantine,
cartoon character, and
Donald E. Knuth,
Lutheran mathematician
“…. recent books testify
further to Calvin College’s
unparalleled leadership
in the field of
Christian historiography….”
further to Calvin College’s
unparalleled leadership
in the field of
Christian historiography….”
A photo opportunity —
and a recent cartoon:
From Calvin College,
today’s meditation: