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W. E. Perry scripsit:
> Because we cannot serve two masters,
Ah, but I spend my life explaining God to mammon and mammon to God.
Likewise with liberals and conservatives, salesfolks and geeks, parents
and children, chickens and eggs, and even Taoists and non-Taoists.
> and only one of these premises can be the single true foundation.
When building a house, a single foundation is a Good Thing. The world
is round, though, and the universe is a hypersurface whose circumference
is everywhere and its center nowhere.
> We cannot
> grant primacy to both light and darkness because one must have the
> superior position to correct the other.
If two walk together, and one should fall, the other may lift him up.
Or consider Escher's "Drawing Hands":
http://www.peter-renner.com/papers/thesis/Escher_hands.jpg
Or even more simply: U+262F.
"Two are one, life and death, lying/Like lovers together in _kemmer_/
Like hands joined together/the end and the Way."
--
John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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