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...INTENT, oracular faces are identified the first time they speak. After that they blend into a continuum of recurring voices, sometimes coupled with faces, but more often in the background, while the people who haven't learned how to talk kill each other or mastermind the killing...
...dear Distraught, characters and plots are pieces, and Our Author cannot deal with pieces. He must present the Life-Stream, the Continuum. But all our feeble intellects can perceive are pieces, so what could He do? I'll tell you what He did--He built for us a blank-white-nothing plain, peopled by two, maybe four-five hollow Kewpie Dolls. Very warm dolls, but hollow. Scattered on the white plain are hundreds of little tags, some of them hard to make out, but all right there. One will...
Physical differences are variations on the universal human theme. All men are different. But all men are also alike; the similarities outnumber the differences, says Morton Fried, on the order of 95 to 5. During man's nomadic residence on earth, a continuum reaching back 2,000,000 years, he has indiscriminately mingled with his own kind, thoroughly scrambling his genes. It may be possible one day to unscramble the human genetic omelet. Until then, group distinctions decreeing one race's superiority over another must necessarily be made on nonbiological lines. With only a few dissenting votes...
...with the "relevant data" that man can establish about his own existence. Citing the examples of such diverse figures as Christ, Socrates and Unitarian Minister James Reeb, who was bludgeoned to death at Selma in 1965, Pike argues that man can transcend his "occupation of a limited space-time continuum" by his impact on others. In other words, the existence of heroism and sanctity is evidence that there is a transcendent quality to man's being that points beyond this life...
There is never anything absolute or definitive about a performance, nor should there be. Each concert, ephemeral as it is, is part of a great musical continuum. It relates both backwards to concerts that have come before and forward to performances that have yet to materialize. Every concert is commentary on every other, and in itself is incomplete. The vultures who regard a concert as their personal prey are missing not only what that particular performance has to offer, but what it has to say in relation to the musical world in general, past and present...