Out of the darkness, fretted sometimes in its sleeping,

Jets of sparks in fountains of blue come leaping

To sight, revealing a secret, numberless secrets keeping.

Sometimes the darkness trapped within a wheel

Runs into speed like a dream, the blue of the steel

Showing the rocking darkness now a-reel.

And out of the invisible, streams of bright blue drops

Rain from the showery heavens, and bright blue crops

Surge from the under-dark to their ladder-tops.

And all the manifold blue and joyous eyes,

The rainbow arching over in the skies,

New sparks of wonder opening in surprise.

All these pure things come foam and spray of the sea

Of Darkness abundant, which shaken mysteriously,

Breaks into dazzle of living, as dolphins that leap from the sea

Of midnight shake it to fire, so the secret of death we see.

--D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930), from Amores (1916)

An "old white man" dies. These days, in some pseudo-intellectual circles, it is the fad to decry the so-called Western Canon as the work of just a bunch of "dead old white men." One of the leading players in bringing the philosophical ideas of these "dead old white men" to the public was Dr. Mortimer Adler, who for many years taught philosophy in what was known as "the law department" at the University of Chicago and who, with the famed President of that university, Robert Hutchins, created the Great Books program in 1946. Dr. Adler died the other day, at 98. [Click for ChiTrib obit]

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blue law NOUN: 1. A law designed to regulate commercial business on Sunday. 2. One of a body of laws in colonial New England designed to enforce certain moral standards and particularly to prohibit specified forms of entertainment or recreation on Sundays.

--The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (4 ed. 2000)

"Let all judges and all city people and all tradesmen rest upon the venerable day of the sun. But let those dwelling in the country freely and with full liberty attend to the

culture of their fields; since it frequently happens that no other day is so fit for the sowing of grain, or the planting of vines; hence, the favorable time should not be

allowed to pass, lest the provisions of heaven be lost." -- Given the seventh of March, Crispus and Constantine being consuls, each for the second time. 321 A.D.

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