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New Gospel, Homey (Inspiration for Your Essay, Dan)
// 7th June
So what if it happened two years ago, I’ve just discovered the video of Kanye and Daft Punk getting together to do Stronger, and I’ve been watching it a few times every day for the last week. I’ve also been writing essays. I also got a little bit sick and had weird dreams that seemed half real and half imagined, where essays seemed to invade everything I was doing, which was mainly blowing my nose.
Νυνὶ δὲ χωρὶς νόμου δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ πεφανέρωται, μαρτυρουμένη ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου καὶ τῶν προφητῶν, δικαιοσύνη δὲ θεοῦ διὰ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, εἰς πάντας τοὺς πιστεύοντας: οὐ γάρ ἐστιν διαστολή: πάντες γὰρ ἥμαρτον καὶ ὑστεροῦνται τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ, δικαιούμενοι δωρεὰν τῇ αὐτοῦ χάριτι διὰ τῆς ἀπολυτρώσεως τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ: ὃν προέθετο ὁ θεὸς ἱλαστήριον διὰ [τῆς] πίστεως ἐν τῷ αὐτοῦ αἵματι εἰς ἔνδειξιν τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ διὰ τὴν πάρεσιν τῶν προγεγονότων ἁμαρτημάτων ἐν τῇ ἀνοχῇ τοῦ θεοῦ, πρὸς τὴν ἔνδειξιν τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν δίκαιον καὶ δικαιοῦντα τὸν ἐκ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ.
– Παυλος, προς Ρωμαιους
In a couple of thousand years, when we all speak Spanglishdarin, and no one writes anymore (“We do not know exactly what the ‘email’ and the ‘iPhone’ are, but we are led to believe that the death of writing occurred around the same they came to prominence”) they will ‘dig up’ this video of a diatribe from Mr. K. West and debate it’s meaning. Did Mr. K. West in fact say “I’d do anything for a blonde” or was the word dyke included on the end of the sentence? There is much attestation to the former, but the video shows it coming from the man’s own mouth. The addition of the word dyke does not make much sense at all–history tells us that ‘dyke’ comes from a Dutch word, and was used to refer to an artificial bank of earth used to regulate water levels. How can such a construction be blonde? But the harder reading of course should be preferred. We have omitted the word, but give it only a C rating, due to the copious amount of attestation (notably including the important SongMeanings.net and LyricWiki.com MSS), and the harder reading of the word dyke. And what did Mr. K. West mean by this statement? Was he saying that he would have done anything for a specific blonde (out of goodness or love or treaty?) which he has in mind? Or would he do anything to obtain a blonde? It is known that in a similar stage of history a number of race issues rose to prominence–was Mr. K. West making a statement about racial inequality, because he himself was black? And so it will go on.
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do you have a special keyboard for that?
dan, June 7th
πεφανέρωται καὶ γάρ δικαιοσύνης εἰς πάντας τοὺς.
joshua, June 9th