March 1, 2006
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Deaconess
“Teach us to care and not to care.”
– T. S. Eliot, “Ash Wednesday“
Related material:
Beth Israel Deaconess,
The House of God,and, from Is Nothing Sacred?,
the following quotations–“I know what ‘nothing’ means.”
– Joan Didion in
Play It As It Lays“Nothing is random.”
– Mark Helprin in
Winter’s Tale“692″ — Pennsylvania lottery,
Ash Wednesday, 2000;
“hole” — Page 692,
Webster’s New World Dictionary,
College Edition, 1960“This hospital, like every other,
is a hole in the universe
through
which holiness
issues in blasts.
It blows both ways,
in and out of
time.”
– Annie Dillard in
For the Time Being
(1999)
