A Theory of Nearly Everything and Next to Nothing at All, pt. 2

March 11, 2015
Fun with Futility

Everything is intimately, inextricably connected to everything else so that the humidity in the Roanoke Valley causes a coed in Salem, Virginia to curse her hair, and a hare^† is run over by a truck on Highway 2 approximately 39 km west of Okayama.

Or, nothing is remotely related to anything else at all except that we wish that were so. It sounds as if it must be.

Therefore, as we know already . . .

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i

In the summer of 1959, Rocco Domenico “Rocky” Colavito, a graduate of Teddy Roosevelt High School in New York City, hit 42 home runs and drove in 111 runs for the Cleveland Indians (which had won 111 games in 1954).

ii

In 1636 or 37, I don’t remember which, but at about this time of year, the body of Saint Isidore of Seville was shown to a Father Victoriano, a Minorite, who had come from France specifically to see it.  The body was perfectly preserved until a finger was cut off and given to the friar to take to the Queen of France, who had requested it.

                                                        iii 

Neither the Spanish words for hair and hare (el pelo / la liebre ) nor the French (le cheveux / le lièvre) are homonyms.

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     ^†Lepus brachyurus brachyurus

Part 1 is here. And there is a third, equally absurd part with a picture of Elmer Fudd here.