Fear and Trembling - Left handedness

John Page (JHPAGE@worldnet.att.net)
Thu, 25 Nov 1999 21:41:45 -0600

    A, uh, stuffed Thanksgiving to you all, especially those of us relishing
in our holidays from meaningless work and school.  As for the actual point
of this post, I guess I'm just reading quotes into the parentheses of a
redundant undercurrent, but ("Digression!") I found this interesting.

    "I do not trouble God with my petty sorrows, the particular does not
trouble me, I gaze only at my love, and I keep its virginal flame pure and
clear.  Faith is convinced the God is concerned about the least things.  I
am content in this life with being married to the left hand, faith is humble
enough to demand the right hand - for that this is humility I do not deny
and shall never deny."       - Soren Kierkegaard from Problemata:
Preliminary Expectoration in Fear and Trembling.

    "The other poem, the last one in the collection, is about a young
suburban widower who sits down on his patch of lawn one night, implicitly in
his pajamas and robe to look at the full moon. A bored white cat, clearly a
member of his household and almost surely a former kingpin of his household,
comes up to him and rolls over, and he lets her bite his left hand as he
looks at the moon." J.D. Salinger (Buddy Glass) from Seymour: An
Introduction.
                                     -jared