April 3, 2005
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Wager
Pennsylvania Lottery Daily Number
for yesterday evening,
Saturday, April 2, 2005:
613Related material:
From 6/13 2004 –
An 8-rayed star:
Another 8-rayed star:
St. Peter’s Square in Rome
From 6/13 2003 –A link to a 2001 First Things essay,
“Here is the heart of the
matter:The underwriting of Hebraic–Hellenic
literacy, of the normative analogue between divine and mortal acts of creation,
was, in the fullest sense, theological. As was the wager (pronounced lost in
deconstruction and postmodernism) on ultimate possibilities of accord between
sign and sense, between word and meaning, between form and phenomenality. The
links are direct between the tautology out of the Burning Bush, that ‘I am’
which accords to language the privilege of phrasing the identity of God, on
the one hand, and the presumptions of concordance, of equivalence, of translatability,
which, though imperfect, empower our dictionaries, our syntax, our rhetoric,
on the other. That ‘I am’ has, as it were, at an overwhelming distance, informed
all predication. It has spanned the arc between noun and verb, a leap primary
to creation and the exercise of creative consciousness in metaphor. Where that
fire in the branches has gone out or has been exposed as an optical illusion,
the textuality of the world, the agency of the Logos in logic—be it Mosaic,
Heraclitean, or Johannine—becomes ‘a dead letter.’That passage bears rereading.”
– Richard John Neuhaus quoting
George Steiner’s Grammars of Creation
(Yale University Press, April 1, 2001)
