July 1, 2005

• Big Dreams

  “For more than a century, Los Angeles has been synonymous with big
  dreams. The Australian writer and critic Clive James said it this way.
  ‘Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like… The fact remains that you
  are already living in it before you get there.’”

  – Today’s inaugural address by Mayor Villaraigosa

  See also the previous entry.

  Update of 2:24 PM July 2:

  Yesterday afternoon I picked up a copy of George Steiner’s Grammars of Creation I had ordered.  A check of Amazon.com to see what others had to say about this book yielded the following:

  “Steiner’s account of Hope as something exclusively transcendental and
  relative to the future is poor and superficial: the person who hopes is
  not only walking ‘towards’ Eternal Life, but is already walking ‘in’
  Eternal Life, walking the Kingdom.”

  – Matías Cordero, Santiago, Chile

  See also an entry of April 7, 2005, Nine is a Vine.

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