About Me

ACCORDING to PERCY: It is all very well to speak of the wonders of the Cosmos as testimony to the glory of God, and it may in fact be true, but it, the Cosmos, is hardly percieved as such in modern technical societies. For most scientists, it seems fair to say, these same wonders, including the behavior of organisms, can be explained as an interaction of elements. The wonder to the scientist is not that God made the world, but that the works of God can be understood in terms of a mechanism without giving God a second thought. Is it not indeed more wonderful to understand the complex mechanisms (dyads) by which the DNA of a sperm joins with the DNA of an ovum to form a new organism than to have God snap his fingers and create an organism like a rabbit under a hat?

The real wonder is not that the Cosmos is now seen as wonderful but that it is not. Despite its inconceivable vastness, it is seen not as wonderful but as something that can be explained as a dyadic system.

ACCORDING to CHESTERTON: No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its colossal good without once feeling acquiescence?

Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair? Can he, in short, be at once not only a pessimist and an optimist, but a fanatical pessimist and a fanatical optimist? Is he enough of a pagan to die for the world, and enough of a Christian to die to it?
In this combination, I maintain, it is the rational optimist who fails, the irrational optimist who succeeds. He is ready to smash the whole universe for the sake of itself.

ACCORDING to KAVANAUGH: Who am I? I am not sure.

I do not search in emptiness and need, but in increasing fullness and desire. Emptiness seeks any voice to fill a void, any face to dispel darkness. Emptiness brings crowds and shadows easy to replace. Fullness brings a friend, unique, irreplaceable. I am not as empty as I was. There are the wind and the ocean, books and music, strength and joys within, and the night. Friendship is less a request than a celebration, less a ritual than a reality, less a need than a want.

Friendship is you and me–and I dream a lot.
WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND? Beyond need.
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ACCORDING to KUSHNER: I experience a feeling of awe and wonder because [it] stirs in me the idea that the ordinary is capable of being extraordinary.

ACCORDING to BUKOWSKI: But sometimes we’ve got to settle for not much; we need our rest; the great tragedy or the great victory will arrive soon enough. Not all of us are gamblers and those who aren’t don’t matter.