April 12, 2006
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Eternal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
“Eternal
truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for
every new social situation.”– AP, Today in History,
apparently quoted from an address
at the University of Pennsylvania,
Sept. 20, 1940Related material:
Gravity’s Rainbow, the beginning of page 373*:“white and geometric capital before the destruction”
Gravity’s Rainbow, the end of page 373*:“Slothrop was going into high school when FDR was starting out in the
White House. Broderick Slothrop professed to hate the man, but
young Tyrone thought he was brave.”See also the Log24 entry
for Dec. 20, 2003 –
White, Geometric, and Eternal –
and the entry for 8 PM on
the feast of St. John Paul II —
Miracle, April 2, 2006.
