November 14, 2008
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Quantum of Solace, continued:
Ballistics and FaithFrom a review of José Saramago's new novel, Death With Interruptions:
"The church has never been asked to explain anything," the cardinal assures the prime minister. "Our specialty, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralization of the overly curious mind through faith."
Related material:
Sept. 7, 2006- Birthday of Elizabeth I
Sept. 7, 2007- Madeleine L'Engle is Dead
Sept. 7, 2008- From the Finland StationFor some mythology relevant to the first two of these three dates, see "Damnation Morning" and The Big Time. For some non-mythology related to ballistics, faith, and the third of these dates, see Rudy Ratzinger vs. Joseph Ratzinger.
As for the main character
of Saramago's novel...“V. is whatever lights you to
the end of the street:
she is also the dark annihilation
waiting at the end of the street.”-- Tony Tanner, page 36,
"V. and V-2," in
Pynchon: A Collection
of Critical Essays.
Ed. Edward Mendelson.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J.:
Prentice-Hall, 1978. 16-55.Happy birthday,
Olga Kurylenko.
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