“Lord, I remember”
— Bob Seger
“Philosophers ponder the idea of identity: what it is to give something a name on Monday and have it respond to that name on Friday….”
— Bernard Holland in The New York Times of Monday, May 20, 1996
Yesterday’s afternoon entry cited philosopher John Holbo on chess. This, together with Holland’s remark above and Monday’s entries on Zizek, suggests…
(pdf, 11 pages)
In this excellent analysis,
Holbo quotes Kierkegaard:
“… the knight of faith
‘has the pain of being unable to
make himself intelligible to others'”
(Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling)
Cardinal Manning
Click on the cardinal
for a link to some remarks
related to the upcoming film
“Angels & Demons” and to
a Paris “Sein Feld.”
Context: the five entries
ending at 9:26 AM
on March 10, 2009…
and, for Kierkegaard,
Diamonds Are Forever.