March 27, 2006

• A Living Church
  
  A skeptic's remark:

  "...the mind is an amazing thing and it can create patterns and
  interconnections among things all day if you let it, regardless of whether
  they are real connections."

  -- Xanga blogger "sejanus"

  A reply from G. K. Chesterton
  (Log24, Jan. 18, 2004):

  "Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead. Shakespeare has
  startled you with an image; but Shakespeare will not startle you with
  any more. But imagine what it would be to live with such men still
  living. To know that Plato might break out with an original lecture
  to-morrow, or that at any moment Shakespeare might shatter everything
  with a single song. The man who lives in contact with what he believes
  to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and
  Shakespeare to-morrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some
  truth that he has never seen before."

  For Reba McEntire:

  

  Sunday's lottery in the
  State of Grace
  (Kelly, of Philadelphia):

  Mid-day: 024
  Evening: 672

  

  A meditation on  
  Sunday's numbers --

  From Log24, Jan. 8, 2005:

  24

  

  The Star
  of Venus

  "He looked at the fading light
  in the western sky and saw Mercury,
  or perhaps it was Venus,
  gleaming at him as the evening star.
  Darkness and light,
  the old man thought.
  It is what every hero legend is about.
  The darkness which is more than death,
  the light which is love, like our friend
  Venus here...."
  

  
  -- Roderick MacLeish, Prince Ombra
  

  From Log24, Oct. 23, 2002:

  An excerpt from
  Robert A. Heinlein's
  classic novel Glory Road --

  "I have many names. What would you like to call me?"     "Is one of them 'Helen'?"     She smiled like sunshine and I learned that she had dimples. She looked sixteen and in her first party dress. "You are very gracious. No, she's not even a relative. That was many, many years ago." Her face turned thoughtful. "Would you like to call me 'Ettarre'?"     "Is that one of your names?"     "It is much like one of them, allowing for different spelling and accent. Or it could be 'Esther' just as closely. Or 'Aster.' Or even 'Estrellita.' "     " 'Aster,' " I repeated. "Star. Lucky Star!"

  Related material:

  672 Astarte and
  The Venerable Bede

  (born in 672).

  672 illustrated:

  
  The Venerable Bede

  and the Star of Venus

  The 672 connection is, of course,
  not a real connection
  (in the sense of "sejanus" above)
  but it is nevertheless
  not without interest.
  

  Postscript of 6 PM

  A further note on the above
  illustration of the 672 connection:

  The late Buck Owens
  (see previous entry for
  Owens, Reba, and the
  star of Venus)
  once described
  his TV series as
  "a show of fat old men
  and pretty young girls"
  (today's Washington Post).

  A further note on
  lottery hermeneutics:

  Those who prefer to interpret
  random numbers with the aid
  of a dictionary
  (as in Is Nothing Sacred?)
  may be pleased to note that
  "heehaw" occurs in Webster's

  New World Dictionary,

  College Edition, 1960,
  on page 672.

  In today's Washington Post,
  Richard Harrington informs us that
  "As a child, Owens worked cotton and
   
  maize fields, taking the name Buck
  from a well-liked mule...."

  
  Hee. Haw.
   

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