The Quark In The Road

On David Crystal's "Story of Be" with a shout out to Margaret Serious

By Aquinas wired, January 17, 2018 at 10:47 am

Author’s note: The following verse is in honor of the 300th post of ChicagoNow’s own Margaret Serious.

In my heart I am fond of “to be”.

In the present it validates me.

Its infinitive state

Is the Good Lord’s mandate

For all humans throughout history.

Filed under: eternity

Tags: the immortal soul

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Margaret H. Laing said January 18, 2018 at 12:00 am

Thank you so much. Appropriately, Crystal includes God "in the beginning" of the book, in "the existential be." That definitely covers The Great I Am.

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