A Theory of Nearly Everything and Next to Nothing at All

February 20, 2015

List the First

Everything is intimately, inextricably connected to everything else so that a butterfly* flutters its wings in Fiji and a dog in Brooklyn^† gets diarrhea.

Or, nothing is remotely related to anything else at all except that we wish that were so.

So, a week of lists.  List the First:

i

Our Lord is not remote
He is even nearer than the jugular vein

- Hamzah Fansuri (d. c. 1590), Malay poet

ii

Summer 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.

iii

 

Over on our political (and dark) side, “Go Around Back,” I get tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. It’s only my misguided opinion anyway. See here.

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* Badamia atrox subflava

 ^† a dachshund - springer spaniel mix