TEGEN DE WERELD

"I shall here write my thoughts without order, and not perhaps in unintentional confusion; that is true order, which will always indicate my object by its very disorder. I should do too much honour to my subject, if I treated it with order, since I want to show that it is incapable of it" (Pascal, Pensees 373).

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue" (Plato, Republic).

Now Spinning the Finest in Funk

"The heritage of values which has been received and handed down is always challenged...To challenge does not necessarily mean to destroy or reject a priori, but above all to put these values to the test in one's own life, and through this existential verification to make them more real, relevant and personal, distinguishing the valid elements in the tradition from false and erroneous ones, or from obsolete forms which can be usefully replaced by others more suited to the times" (John Paul II, Centesimus Annus).

"If there were no obscurity, man would not be sensible of his corruption; if there were no light, man would not hope for a remedy. Thus, it is not only fair, but advantageous to us, that God be partly hidden and partly revealed; since it is equally dangerous to man to know God without knowing his own wretchedness, and to know his own wretchedness without knowing God" (Pascal, Pensees 686).

Cryptography is the study of means of converting information from comprehensible form into an incomprehensible format--the art of encryption. In the past, cryptography helped ensure secrecy in important communications, such as those of spies.

Icon (n): a graphic symbol that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface; a visual representation of an object or scene or person or abstraction produced on a surface; a religious image on a small panel--venerated in the Eastern Church.

If I could through myself / Set your spirit free / I'd lead your heart away / See you break, break away / Into the light / And to the day.

Svjatyj Bozhe, Svjatyj Krjepkij, Svjatyj Bezsmertnyj, Pomiluj nas.

Tegen de Wereld 26 June 2014.

31 augustus 2005

Kandinsky, Tormento interiore, 1925

Lean back...

30 augustus 2005

And last, but not least, PNVK #9, latitude 90° 00' N:
the North Pole

"Fire and Ice"

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Robert Frost (1923)

PNVK #8, latitude 40° 26' N: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
upcoming stop on U2's N. American "Vertigo" Tour

PNVK # 7, latitude 49° 50' N: Brandon, Manitoba,
birthplace of a little de Wereld

PNVK #6, latitude 43° 40' N: Portland, Maine, former
de Wereld abode

PNVK #5, latitude 38° 58' N: Kent Narrows, Maryland,
home of the world-famous Harris Crab House

PNVK #4, latitude 53° 26' N: Dublin, birthplace (1729) of
Edmund Burke, author of seminal work on modern political
conservatism

PNVK #3, latitude 41° 37' N: Tampico,
Illinois, birthplace of former US
president Ronald W. Reagan

PNVK #2, latitude 43° 34' N: Walker's Point, Maine, home
of former US president G.H.W. Bush

T.d.W. are pleased to present for your enjoyment our newest
cybertour. We call it Places North of Virginia and Kentucky.

PNVK #1, latitude 41° 52' N: Rome

Regarding a recent spate of unfriendly exchanges
in various comment sections, T.d.W. remind you
to be kind to one another

29 augustus 2005

Those were the days

28 augustus 2005

Deco bird

Cooking out for St. Augustine's

"Too late have I loved you, O Beauty so ancient, O Beauty so new. Too late have I loved you! You were within me but I was outside myself, and there I sought you! In my weakness I ran after the beauty of the things you have made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The things you have made kept me from you - the things which would have no being unless they existed in you! You have called, you have cried, and you have pierced my deafness. You have radiated forth, you have shined out brightly, and you have dispelled my blindness. You have sent forth your fragrance, and I have breathed it in, and I long for you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst for you. You have touched me, and I ardently desire your peace."

Memorial of St. Augustine of Hippo, Bishop and Doctor, 28 August