Friday June 13, 2008

Edward Rothstein last Monday:

“What is being said?
What does it mean?
Where does it come from
 and where else is it used?”

A partial answer:
today’s previous entry,
“For Philip Rieff,”
and an midrash on
the word “Pahuk”
(as in “Pahuk Pride,”
the name of this week’s
Boy Scout gathering
in Iowa at which
a tornado killed four) —
 

Click on image for further details.

Rieff was the author of

Sacred Order/Social Order,
Volume 1–

My Life among the Deathworks:
Illustrations of the
Aesthetics of Authority

(University of Virginia Press, 2006)

Rieff’s concept of sacred order
was Jewish rather than Pawnee,
but his writings still seem relevant.