Today's sermon is for Martha B. Helfer, author of
the treatise on Darstellung in today's previous post
and of the following—
(Click for clearer image.)
Helfer's The Word Unheard was published by Northwestern University Press
on St. Andrew's Day, 2011. Log24 posts on that day—
Lines, Grids, and Fatuity for St. Andrew's Day.
The last of these warned of an upcoming Jewish Book Week event
on February 22, 2012.
That date turned out to be Ash Wednesday. See a Log24 post on that topic
that quotes a poet, T.S. Eliot, with anti-Semitic proclivities—
"And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word."
— T. S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"
This is perhaps not entirely irrelevant to Helfer's title, The Word Unheard .
* A concept of Schopenhauer and Hitler, and the first name of
a fictional Boston mathematician.