Annals of Philosophy--

For St. Willard
Van Orman Quine

                          " ... to apprehend
The point of intersection of the timeless 
With time, is an occupation for the saint"
-- Four Quartets   

Quine receives
Kyoto Prize

The Timeless:



Time
 
(64 years,
  and more):

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
 That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

Annals of Religion--

"The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 15 August....

...has a double object: (1) the happy departure of Mary from this life; (2) the assumption of her body into heaven. It is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin....

Note: By promulgating the Bull Munificentissimus Deus, 1 November, 1950, Pope Pius XII declared infallibly that the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was a dogma of the Catholic Faith."

"In 1998, 29 people were killed by a car bomb that tore apart the center of Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility."

Zen and the Art: A Chautauqua--

"Amphitheater – George Kembel –

"Plattner is said to be the 11th richest man in Germany with an estimated fortune of 5 billion USD, according to Forbes....

Jumping the Shark San Jose Sharks logo

VS.

Gleaming the Cube Andy Kessler, May 22, 2007

See also recent Log24 entries.
Kessler died of a wasp sting
on Monday, August 10, 2009.

Some philosophical background
for those who prefer Native American
religions to the Abrahamic religions
promoted at Chautauqua:

On the Gleaming Way,
by John Collier.
Chapter One:
 "Native American Time."

Review:

Naturalized Epistemology, continued:

Exegesis

Text:

The Shining, 1977, page 162: "A new headline, this one  dated April 10...." "The item on the next page  was a mere squib, dated  four months later...."

Exegesis:

April 10-- Good Friday-- See The Paradise of Childhood. Four months later-- Aug. 10-- "When he thought of the old man   he could see him suddenly   in a field in the spring,   trying to move a gray boulder." "... the poem makes meanings of the rock...."