Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Athena






I am glad that I have not yet come to a place where I might feel the need to doubt my skepticism. Moving from one discipline to another involves, in my case, among other things, moving from the activity of interpretation to that of interpolation, and I prefer the latter, although one needs to know how to do both. So I visited Athena Parthenos in her new home in Centennial Park in Nashville, Tennessee, and was pleased to find her in very good form. Serious but not stern, with wide, clear and knowing eyes, protector of the Honky Tonks, the Titans, the steel and chrome and the shattered dreams of the troubadours. My Stats professor once told me: one day everything will become clear, and you will understand everything, but, in order to do that, you need a PhD. in Sociology."

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