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.

30 mei 2006

The offices of Tegen de Wereld will be closed until mid-June.
Thank you for visiting again when we return.

See ya!

Off for a holiday

"Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece."

John Paul II, Letter to Artists, 1999

29 mei 2006

So there

Chapter Four: "12 April 1945"

Chapter Three: "Down in Asia"

Chapter Two: "Nine Ball Physics"

Chapter One: "Efficacy of the Divining Rod"

Weekend Adventures, by Ria de Wereld

25 mei 2006

Ria's pet

On the phonograph

Down by the docks

Gauguin, The Yellow Christ, 1889

Dance with your children too

24 mei 2006

Hic est enim calix sanguines mei

Miami

Summer exercise

This week's read

An old acquaintance has indicated dislike for our blog's religious, political and artistic sensibilities. By way of imaging this opinion's effect upon us, consider a scanning electron micrograph of the foot hairs of the spider E. arcuata, which are enormous by comparison.

23 mei 2006

In the Name of Love

Break

21 mei 2006

Idiots

Sans steroids

19 mei 2006

And those less traveled

On favored roads

Stepping out

Time to dress up again

17 mei 2006

Yup

13 mei 2006

Saturday housekeeping

We are pleased to direct your attention to several recently added blog components for the enhancement of your interactive experience.

Vertigo III

Vertigo II

Vertigo I

12 mei 2006

Met Opa

11 mei 2006

Orange

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd!

10 mei 2006

“You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds….What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can” (St. Thomas More, Utopia).