“Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.”
Oryx and Crake (2003)
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Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Creation seminars (2003-2005), Dinosaurs and the Bible
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
"The Battle of Lovell's Pond," poem first published in the Portland Gazette (November 17, 1820).
Context: p>The warriors that fought for their country, and bled,
Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed;
No stone tells the place where their ashes repose,
Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes.They died in their glory, surrounded by fame,
And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim;
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast,
And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.</p
Carol J. Adams book The Sexual Politics of Meat
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (New York: Continuum, 1990), p. 40.
Jaroslav Pelikan (1923–2006) US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale
The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1984), p. 65.
Alternate version" Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.
in "Christianity as an enfolding circle," U.S. News & World Report (June 26, 1989), p. 57
“In the beginning was the dog
the real name of Jehovah is Rover
Adam's rib is buried in the garden”
John Hegley (1953) British writer, musician and comedian
"God is dog"
Glad To Wear Glasses (1990)
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>Phoebus is dead, ephebe. But Phoebus was
A name for something that never could be named.
There was a project for the sun and is.There is a project for the sun. The sun
Must bear no name, gold flourisher, but be
In the difficulty of what it is to be.</p
Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
Quoted in The Orson Welles Story.
“Few bipeds, from Adam's time down, have been worthy of the name of man.”
Marguerite Yourcenar book The Abyss
Peu de bipèdes depuis Adam ont mérité le nom d'homme.
"A Conversation in Innsbruck", p. 114
The Abyss (1968)