My Fair Ladies

[David Morris]

Agreed. Creation is evolutionary, relentlessly so. Entropy isn't bigger
than Life. The balance of all of Creation's forces is always, in the long
run, toward evolution into higher, stranger, new forms. Monsters of nature
are wonderful.

On Saturday, May 9, 2015, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:

> David Morris  wrote:
> > Tho your prose intro baffled me a bit, the poem left me in awe.
>
> The poem, a Christian prayer, a Jesuit's poem, is a fine example of
> the Christian view of God's / The Creation's /  Nature's power to
> produce wonders, monsters, prodigies, not slaves, not mechanical
> force, but miraculous ones that are gifts, of Grace, God's power to
> keep our sense of wonder alive, forever and ever. Rather than
> replicate, or mass manufacture, or produce by mechanical means, God,
> even when she produces twins, never produces anything that is like
> anything else. All are new. No two flowers are identical, notr two
> faces, nor grains of sand. God does this to keep perpetually alive,
> immortal, our sense of wonder and to amuse herself. We can only praise
> Her, or Him...Hymn. So female monsters, if they be of Nature and not
> of Man, are delightful, they are the carnival, the parade, the song,
> that provokes nor evokes horror nor terror.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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