July 25-28, 1996
Vacation in Charleston, South Carolina.
SPEECH LOG
Michael Naughton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Theology and Management at the University of St. Thomas, spoke on "Work and Leisure," at a breakfast presented by the Peter Favre Forum.
RECONSIDERATIONS
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity by Alan D. Sokal
READING NOTEBOOK
A Swedish writer, observing the flight of gulls in a storm, at first thought that they flew backward, then understood that they were letting the wind carry them where it wished, for they lacked the power to resist. But they did not alter course--fly with the wind. Some inner mechanism informed them which was the way. Had they flown with the wind, they would have lost their sense of direction. Better to move backward, let the wind have its way, but retain the sense of direction.
In the face of the storm it is harder to fly backward than forward; and to do so with dignity demands more of people, as of gulls. True, flying backward, people and gulls alike make little progress. But they keep their sense of direction, know which way is forward.
--Oscar Handlin, "The Unmarked Way," The American Scholar Summer 1996, p. 355
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