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The Gospel of Lear
Buechner on Shakespeare and his King Lear: Insofar as the truth is tragic, he told a tragedy of men and women suffering more than even their own folly and wickedness seem to merit. Insofar as the truth is comic, both in the sense of a kind of terrible funniness and of a happy end to all that is terrible, he told a comedy of madmen and fools. Insofar as the truth transcends all such distinctions and points beyond itself, he told a kind of fairy tale where everybody is disguised as something he or she is not and only at the end are all disguises stripped away so that finally all are revealed for what they truly are, and like the beast in “Beauty and the Beast,” the old king, with Cordelia in her beauty dead in his arms, is finally turned into a human...
For Good Measure
This image is much better, and comes from an activity I did with my family on my Thanksgiving Trip home to Kansas City:
For SQ
Merry Christmas…
Volume: 11
I’ve been shockingly busy lately, and I’m nursing a cold. But I think a bit of extra promotion for the big event tomorrow is in order. This weekend is marked by the second Annual Global Summit on AIDS. Heritage will be recognizing World AIDS Day on Friday, December 1st, by hosting a Benefit Event. Here’s the official description: On Dec. 1, 2006, Heritage Christian Church, 7413 Maxtown Rd., Westerville, will sponsor a World AIDS Day Benefit. The event is free with opportunities provided to give love donations that will benefit Heritage’s Bless Kenya partnership in Africa. There will also be opportunities for community members to partner with local AIDS organizations. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Musical...
History’s Joke
The extraordinary diversification of thought existing in the world has traditionally been channeled through structured lines. That is, syllogisms and precepts that act as guides to “new” rivers of discourse. Though conceptions of the Foundation have varied throughout the centuries the death of the Foundation, and thus the de-struction of coherent channels, has only been publicly asserted as recently as the late 1800′s in Nietzsche’s famous dialogue in the Gay Science. That is not to say that the influence of the Foundation was at full force before Nietzsche’s exclamation–the hearts of men and women have always tended to rebel against God. And if you’d like to explore such histories you need only examine the Bible and...