Awesome Thought of the Week
Monday, February 9, 2009
Not being a Christian, this would never have occurred to me, but it did occur to Becca and she passed it on.
In the Bible, John 1:1 says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
- which might argue that all of creation is a text, and that those of us who have been trained to examine texts might be in a rather more startling position than we had previously believed.
If the universe is a text, if it can be approached as a text and understood as a text, then it can be interpreted and changed like a text.
Think on.
3 comments:
Does that mean that Roland Barthes is Nietzsche?
Is the Word in the beginning an example of phallogocentrism?
Is deconstruction the new moral relativism?
Does Russian formalism provide an explanation for the wonder of science?
Hmm... food for thought there!
The mother in The Railway Children said that she liked to think the world was a book that God was writing, and that He had a happy ending planned even if the characters couldn't see it.
Troilus and Criseyde has a happy ending because he dies and realises he's been worried over nothing.
Lucy, i like the way you think.
Must read The Railway Children. Hey, i typed 'Raily'.
Dave (and Becca), there's a novel in that thought. Hell, there's a novel series.
Maybe 'hell' was the wrong word.
Lucy - phallogocentrism: no.
More later.
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