“Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88) is, by any measure, an obscure figure,
little known outside the exclusive circles of a certain very rarefied kind of
scholarship, hardly read at all even in his native Germany, and perhaps
truly understood by next to no one. And yet . . . .”
— “The Laughter of the Philosophers,” by David Bentley Hart,
First Things , January 2005
Update at 7 the same morning . . .
Meanwhile, back in 1963 —
… and at 7:15 the same morning, from a different Cambridge —
