Scenes From a Broken Hand: A Gentle Warning From Your Father

Saturday, November 24, 2007

A Gentle Warning From Your Father

On Andrew Sullivan's blog at the Atlantic is a list of some pithy quotes from James Madison, the father of our Constitution.

Here's one gem to mull over as you begin your post-Thanksgiving week:

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

I'm not saying anything. I'm just saying.

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Scenes from a Broken Hand

CHESTER:
This monk I knew in Thailand... amazing man. He was always talking about these veils that stand between us and reality—and how you had to push them back to win the Hide and Seek.

JIM:
Hide and Seek?

MORDECAI:
It's a game, Pogo—the one I'm playing with myself—my real self, deep down.

CHESTER:
No, no. God, or the world, or whatever is out there, is playing it--with all of us. See, God is like this tremendous hand, and we, all of us, everything, are like the fingers. What God does is, he splits himself up into all these different parts, all these fingers: plants, fish, people, rocks—and then—this is the amazing part— he forgets! He forgets what he's done. He plays a game with himself, see? Hide and Seek! That's what the veils are for—so he can forget—so we can forget where it all came from. We see the fingers, but we never see the hand.

from Scenes From a Broken Hand,
a play by Andrew Ordover