[WriteOn]

BWAAAHHHHHAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA

I'm a genius or was. If I tell you that pantheism is the way to go is that an error I'm entitled to?

ROFL

[jobim]

Is anyone familiar with the Flannery O'Connor short story Everything That Rises Must Converge?

The title is from Chardin, and the story is a demolition of his premise: ie things are evolving over time upwards toward God. In the unlikliest manner of attack, she uses the theme of integration in the New South, with a condescending son of the New South and his mother stuck in the mindset of segregation (both white), and an incident with three blacks on a newly integrated bus. Her thesis is that salvation is not dependent upon evolutionary time (as Chardin proposes), but is available in a single moment of grace.

I teach high school English and I enjoy bringing this to the attention of the students. It's from a fascinating essay on convergence by Mark Helprin, wherein he cites the great poem of Thomas Hardy, "Convergence of the Twain". See the following address to read the essay: http://www.claremont.org/writings/991130helprin.html.