Quotes 3 Mar 18

...the Bible does not say that men and women are unequal. Neither does the church. There are no second class citizens in the New Jerusalem. It is husbands and wives that are unequal. It is precisely in marriage (a state, you will recall, not to be continued as such in heaven) that they enter into a relationship of superior to inferior,- of head to a body. And the difference there is not one of worth, ability to intelligence, but of role. It is functional not organic.It is based on the exigencies of the Dance not on a judgement as to talent.In the ballet, in any intricate dance, one dancer leads, the other follows. Not because one is better (he may or may not be), but because that is his part. Our mistake here, as elsewhere, is to think that equality and diversity are irreconcilable. The common notion of equality is based on the image of the march. In a parade, really unequal beings are dressed alike, given guns of identical length, trained to hold them at the same angle, and ordered to keep step with a fixed beat. But it is not the parade that is true to life, it is the dance. There you have real equals assigned unequal roles in order that each may achieve his individual perfection in the whole. Nothing is less personal than a parade; nothing more so than a dance. It is the choice image of fulfillment through function, and it comes very close to the heart of the Trinity. Marriage is a hierarchical game played bu co-equal persons.Keep that paradox and you move in the freedom of the Dance; alter, and you grow weary with marching. - - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 53-54.

"Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make 

sense." "Grandpa Jones" - Hee-Haw tv show. 

Asked who was worse, Rousseau or Voltaire, Dr. Johnson is said (at least apocryphally) to have replied: “Sir, it is not for me to apportion the degree of iniquity between a louse and a flea.” I think it’s pretty much the same regarding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. 

-- Roger Kimball, Thoughts on the RNC Convention, #1 

https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2016/07/19/thoughts-on-the-rnc-convention-1/ 

Dr. Johnson said no such thing. When James Boswell asked him if he thought Rousseau was "as bad a man as Voltaire," Johnson replied: "Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them." See: Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol. 1, p. 278. In 1783, however, Johnson did say this about two run-of-the-mill British poets, Samuel Derrick and Christopher Smart: "Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea."  

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. 

     --Jack Handey (1949-    ) 

      _Deeper Thoughts_ [1993]