September 18, 2006

  • Apology


     

    Excerpts from
    Log 24, January 18, 2004:

     

    A Living Church

    "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."

    -- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

    C. P. Snow on G. H. Hardy in the foreword to A Mathematician's Apology:

    "... he had another favourite entertainment...."

    ... If, as Chesterton might surmise, he... met
    Plato and Shakespeare in Heaven, the former might discuss with him the
    eternal Platonic form of the number 17*, while the latter might offer....

    * Footnote of 9/18/06: For the Platonic form of 17, see Feast of the Triumph of the Cross (9/14/06) and Medal (9/15/06).

    A Living Church,
    continued...

    Apology:

    An Exercise in Rhetoric

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