Alas, You Don't Need Monsters For Monstrous

Once Upon A Time, When I Was Young, People Saw A Wedding As An Event That Determined The Rest Of Their Life. For A Rising Number Of People Today, It Is Quite Normal To "try And Err", Marry, Divorce, Marry Again.

As To Describing Me As An Outsider Throughout, And An Outsider Through And Through - I Have No Reason To Disagree.

The Woe Of Mortality Makes Humans God-like. It Is Because We Know That We Must Die That We Are So Busy Making Life. It Is Because We Are Aware Of Mortality That We Preserve The Past And Create The Future. Mortality Is Ours Without Asking--but Immortality Is Something We Must Build Ourselves. Immortality Is Not A Mere Absence Of Death; It Is Defiance And Denial Of Death. It Is 'meaningful' Only Because There Is Death, That Implacable Reality Which Is To Be Defied.

Every Interpretation Is But An Introduction To Another Interpretation, And That Is How Talmud Pages Are Printed.

I Suspect That The Peer-review System Carries A Good Part Of Blame For The Fact That Something Like Sixty Percent Or More Of Journal Articles Are Never Quoted (which Means Leaving No Trace On Our Joint Scholarly Pursuits), And (in My Reception At Any Rate) The "learned Journals" (with A Few Miraculous Exceptions That Entail, Prominently, Tcs) Ooze Monumental Boredom.