Recent human crash-landing on Sainte-Anneþ

Jerry Friedman · 10 Jan 2011, 22:19 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:19:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth)
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> From: DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net>

> --- On Mon, 1/10/11, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>  wrote:
> > 
> > --- On Mon, 1/10/11,  Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > What authorities? Are you suggesting that  someone
> > > here is superior to others?
> > >
> > 
> > The principal struck me then, such that I recoiled as if
> > struck  by Ferrous Mike, that the conciliator himself might
> > be posting here  unknown, and his divine theories completely
> > ignored and scorned by the  hoi polloi with their pretensions
> > of liberal analysis.  
> > 
> > Is not every word he speaks surely fallen from the divine
> > hand  of the creator?  Is not his interpretation by
> > definition the highest and  most corrent form, rather than
> > some abstract lip service to the commonly  held view of the
> > general public, largely imaginary?
> > 
> > It  is the most debased form of superstition to assume that
> > we must be  unaware of superiority to be influenced by it.
> 
> Where then is our Mediator? Where is our Judge? Where then is our he-who-saves,  
>he whose
> b-b-bones we crush and whose b-b-blood we boil, so we too may suffer  with each 
>blow? And in
> our suffering win the right to see the sun---the s-s-sun,  whole and 
>b-b-blinding?

You may be right.  Perhaps each person is entitled to his own reading, or to two 
readings
that conflict with each other, as the oboist said to the clarinetist.  Have you 
ever heard of
an instrument with a name like "oboe"?

Jerry Friedman

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