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"Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a
prayer upon." George MacDonald
Eric Scheske
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I've always received the notion of "acoustic space" with a skeptical attitude.
It's my standard knee-jerk disposition toward any notion coeval with the vacuous
pop art concepts of the 1960s and 1970s.
But I've warmed up to the concept now that
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Maybe rock-n-roll has been wildly popular and rock stars the object of
disproportionate admiration because art has dropped to a low level of
appreciation in our culture. In a culture where art isn't appreciated, lower
forms of art will step in to fulfill that primordial human
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Top Ten List of Schallian Points found in The Unseriousness of Human Affairs:
10. Higher education is today largely a matter of private enterprise, good
fortune, and reading things that few assign or praise.
9. We must first ask to see before we shall see.
8. We must philosophize with
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Free Time
True free time is time that is free from the exigencies of work and the
requirement to play. In true free time the highest things are offered. Remember
that before filling your weekends with incessant activities and your weekdays
with twelve hours of work. And if you find
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No person does anything unless it strikes them as good, but only a bestial
person does something solely because it feels good.
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Easter
When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld "him as a reality in the
world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of
its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or
watch a
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Holy Saturday
By killing Jesus, Satan had swallowed God's bait. He didn't know he had
swallowed the Godhead, thereby inviting Full Being into his fortress of
nothingness and bringing about the ontological fall of his nothingness. In the
words of St. Gregory of Nyssa: "The
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Good Friday
No one ever experienced the plunge down the vacuum of evil as did God's
Son--even to the excruciating agony behind the words: "My God, my god, why hast
thou forsaken me?" Jesus was really destroyed. Cut off in the flower of his age;
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A Little Boswell
In his fine book, The Unseriousness of Human Affairs, James Schall recounts a
dinner attended by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. The occasion: the first
gathering of a small group of friends with Mrs. Violette Garrick since the death
of her husband, the actor David Garrick. The