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At Tara in This Fateful Hour

m759 - September 9, 2003 @ 4:59 pm · Filed under m759Stories

Story Theory

The conflict between the Euclidean, or “diamond” theory of truth, and the Trudeau, or “story” theory of truth, continues.

On this, Hugh Grant’s birthday, let us recall last year’s log24 entry for this date. On Roger Ebert’s review of the Hugh Grant film “Sirens” about the artist Norman Lindsay:

Ebert gets Pan wrong in this film; he says, “the
bearded Lindsay is a Pan of sorts.” No. The “Pan of sorts” is in fact
the girl who romps joyfully with the local boys and who later, with
great amusement, uses her divine x-ray vision to view Tara Fitzgerald
naked in church.

This year’s offering for Grant’s birthday is an
illustrated prayer by a great defender of the religious, or “story,”
theory of truth, Madeleine L’Engle:

 

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Tara Fitzgerald

PATRICK’S RUNE

At Tara, in this fateful hour,
I place all heaven with its power.
And the sun with its brightness,
And the snow with its whiteness,
And the fire with all the strength it hath,
And the lightning with its rapid wrath,
And the winds with their swiftness along their path,
And the sea with its deepness,
And the rocks with their steepness,
And the earth with its starkness;
All these I place
By God’s almighty help and grace
Between myself and the powers of darkness.

From A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L’Engle

1 Comment

  1. N. Burris-Meyer

    October 14, 2003 @ 3:06 pm

    1

    Hebrew recognises both sorts of truth, having separate words to denote “accuracy” and “moral validity.”

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