For Abraham, Arthur, and Murray

by Steven H. Cullinane

Was God in the details?

Emmylou Harris at the Ryman:

"I was a child of the sixties
When dreams could be held through tears
With Disney and Cronkite and Martin Luther
And I believed, I believed, I believed."

Google search shortly after midnight
today, Murray Bob's (and Lincoln's) birthday, 2005:



The result of that search:



Why hexagram 15?  See the article by Deborah Solomon from the New York Times Magazine of September 19, 2004, in which Arthur Miller says,

" 'I'll probably be forgotten completely. Most of the work in the world is forgotten completely; 99.99 percent of all artwork is forgotten. There have been so many writers who dominated a period and then slipped off. History is like some gigantic beast -- it simply wriggles its back and throws off whatever is on it.'

His comments were endearingly modest but impossible to take at face value. The truth is that not everyone is thrown into the abyss of oblivion."

See also Sunday Shul, from that same date last September,  and the entries that followed, culminating with Church Architecture and Aluminum, Your Shiny Friend, of Sept. 23, 2004.  These are echoed in last night's tribute to the jazz of the sixties, The Blues and the Abstract Truth.  The trumpets that sounded there perhaps sounded for Arthur Miller as well.

For some philosophical background to the I Ching, see A Hate Speech for Harvard and Symmetry and Change.

"Time and chance happeneth." -- Solomon

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