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...only Christians whose faith the scrolls can jolt are those who have failed to see the paradox that the churches have always taught: that Jesus Christ was a man as well as God - a man of a particular time and place, speaking a specific language, revealing his way in terms of a specific cultural and religious tradition. For Christians who want to know more of that matrix in which their faith was born, the People of the Scrolls are reaching a hand across the centuries...
...Oppenheimer's most important points, made in relation to the paradox of knowledge, was the imbalance between "the intimate, familiar and old form of human knowledge" and that which is new, which is known either well by the few or vaguely by the many. He related this to the imbalance between what is "common knowledge" and "the enormous richness and beauty of information which is hoarded by just a few small groups...
...something of a paradox that freshmen who have not fenced until their first year here usually develop into the best varsity competitors. This happens simply because fencers who begin the sport in preparatory schools often find that early habits hamper them in perfecting the style which suits Marion...
Monkeyshining Paradox. Emily, by impersonating the bride, thoughtfully intervenes to save Fatigay from marriage to the heartless Amy. ("Marriage between cousins is perfectly legal," says the clergyman when the imposture is discovered.) As Mr. and Mrs. Fatigay return to the Congo, the groom tells shipboard interviewers: "My message to your readers is simply this. It is true my wife is not a woman. She is an angel . . . Behind every great man there may be a woman, and beneath every performing flea a hot plate, but beside the only happy man I know of-there is a chimp...
Collier's verbal monkeyshines are so adroit as to make the reader forget the paradox that while man may be like a monkey, a monkey is not like a man. It is all prime fun among the primates, and calls to mind the verse of a British poet in which an ape reflects on the Darwinian version of the Fall...