Is the very tonal quality, that vibrational effect that the inner ear sends to the brain...and produces the word "scripture" a turn-off to people? I think it is. But I'll use it here nonetheless until I come up with a less offensive one.
Scripture writes that every word we have ever spoken will be shouted even on the housetops and done so to search the intent of the heart. In other words, it is for judging us. Now what can that possibly mean? Again, Kurt Vonnegut, in those words he wrote from his collection of essays, (noted above), seemes to be gazing at the glow of truth, from very afar certainly, but sensing something of...what is! Nothing is lost.

I hadn't heard that in England.
вечная память.
(Memory Eternal.)

it's a very sad day, indeed.

I hadn't noticed any posting of this. I was very sad to hear about Thomas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._Disch

Add this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080803/wl_nm/russia_solzhenitsyn_dc

See "The Leavetaking" thread...