[betty boop]

Beautifully fitting, Brother Arlen. Thank you so much for the Isaiah.

[cornelis]

seeing the cosmos like an existentialist -- empty, bleak, and meaningless

Or rather like a Socrates? Did Barzun slip? There are all sorts of existentialists, but I'm not so sure that Job was one like that.

Job and Nietzsche, now that would make a dialogue. And Socrates. What a trio of profound speech to eulogize the human ape.