by Charles Norman | Apr 23, 2019 | Song of the Day
All of a sudden he thought: If people are reunited in Heaven (I don’t believe it, but suppose), then how shall I stop it from creeping upon me, that shriveled, helpless, lame thing, her soul? But this is the earth, and I am, curiously enough, alive, and there is...
by Charles Norman | Apr 21, 2019 | Song of the Day
Today is Easter Sunday, the day on which Christians celebrate the Resurrection of their Lord and Savior. Non-Christians, and most Christians, too, for that matter, celebrate the arrival of a large rabbit that scatters eggs around the house in a perverse re-enactment...
by Charles Norman | Apr 19, 2019 | Song of the Day
Who lost none of them because he could not remember his sister but only the loss of her… — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Benjamin, our lastborn, sold into Egypt, remembered none of the glad times, only the hollowness of the absence of Candace,...
by Charles Norman | Apr 18, 2019 | Song of the Day
In this circumstance, Plato tells us, the larger quantity of fire will weigh more, for it will be more difficult to drag the larger quantity away from the main body of the element to which it belongs. — Denis O’Brien, Theories of Weight in the Ancient...
by Charles Norman | Apr 18, 2019 | Song of the Day
Mathematical platonism is the metaphysical view that there are abstract mathematical objects whose existence is independent of us and our language, thought, and practices. – Øystein Linnebo, Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics The Mobius Strip is slung...
