Some context for David Brooks’s
New York Times column today,
“Christian Realism“–
The death of Oral Roberts is
reported on the online front page
just below an ad picturing
a heavenly travel destination–
The part most interesting to me
in the Times‘s surrealistic tableau
is the time, 4:17 PM.
Interpreting this in a surreal manner
as a reference to the date 4/17, we
find an appropriate Wallace Stevens poem.
(See also today’s previous entry, where
3:23 may be similarly interpreted.)
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