Month: December 2006

• You’ll slide off, either up or down.

  Supernaturalism: Nothing is just itself, it is part of something else. Naturalism: Nothing is itself, it is made up of something else.

• Pomegranates in the Tabernacle

  The little carved pomegranates in the desert tabernacle, described carefully by God in Exodus, give us a liberating theory of “Christian” art.   The little fake fruit are there, apparently, because it’s a dry and spare land and, well, they are fruit.  And they’re pretty.   We are never taught that they “stand for” something else more…

• Credo ut intelligam

  I act in order to be wise.