Wednesday March 1, 2006

“Teach us to care and not to care.”
— T. S. Eliot, “Ash Wednesday“

Related material:

Beth Israel Deaconess,



The House of God,

and, from Is Nothing Sacred?,
the following quotations–

“I know what ‘nothing’ means.”
— Joan Didion in
Play It As It Lays

“Nothing is random.”
— Mark Helprin in
Winter’s Tale

“692” — Pennsylvania lottery,
Ash Wednesday, 2000;
“hole” — Page 692,
Webster’s New World Dictionary,
College Edition, 1960

“This hospital, like every other,
is a hole in the universe
through which holiness
issues in blasts.
It blows both ways,
in and out of time.”
— Annie Dillard in
For the Time Being
(1999)