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The Tattered Remnant:
The Unknown Heroes Who Make Our World

Plato and the Old Testament have an interesting coincidence: both reference to heroes whom you never see, never notice, and whom the earth may never even note exist. But this silent, hard working few–one in a thousand or fewer–are referred to in Bible and Plato as “The Remnant”. The children of Israel sometimes call them The Righteous Among The Nations. Here I call them the Tattered Remnants.

Friday, September 4, 2020

Jan Karski
Posted by (c)2014 Richard L. Kent, Esq. (MichiganSilverback at gmail dot com) at 7:25 AM No comments:

Friday, August 7, 2020

Vincent Coleman: "Goodbye boys"

 https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/halifax-explosion/vincent-coleman-and-halifax-explosion

Posted by (c)2014 Richard L. Kent, Esq. (MichiganSilverback at gmail dot com) at 10:26 PM No comments:
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(c)2014 Richard L. Kent, Esq. (MichiganSilverback at gmail dot com)
§ It's said that an infinite number of monkeys typing away at keyboards will eventually reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare. § What they don't say is that the total amount of matter in the universe, if turned into monkeys and typewriters, powered by all energy present in the universe, to feed the monkeys in question, working for a hundred billion years, can't possibly create as much as the first act of Hamlet. § One Infinite Monkey--i.e., a human being--can write all of Shakespeare's works in the course of a single lifetime... if that Infinite Monkey happens to be Shakespeare. § You are an Infinite Monkey. So am I. Amphibians are we, half spirit and half worm: monkeys in the sense that we are Steve Gerber's “hairless apes, trapped in a world we never made”; infinite in the sense that we are also immortal and we shall still live when the sun is a black dwarf. § If you recognize, like this old silverback, that we are a duality and not a mere mechanical emptiness--you may find my writings amusing. If so, welcome. Stay a while. And feel free to comment. (But keep it clean.)
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