Zen holy day:
Bodhidharma Day
Epigraph to Chapter 23 of Contact, by Carl Sagan:
We have not followed cunningly devised fables….
— II Peter 1:16
Song lyric:
It’s still the same old story….
— Herman Hupfeld, 1931
From Chapter 23 of Contact, by Carl Sagan:
“You mean you could decode a picture hiding in pi and it would be a mess of Hebrew letters?”
“Sure. Big black letters, carved in stone.”
He looked at her quizzically.
“Forgive me, Eleanor, but don’t you think you’re being a mite too… indirect? You don’t belong to a silent order of Buddhist nuns. Why don’t you just tell your story?”
Moonlight and love songs,
never out of date….
See also my journal note
for Michaelmas, 2002,
“Pi in the Sky.”