...body in every aspect of its structure can be given in words . . . LEONARDO DA V1NC1 preface Mystery / have said that the soul is not more than the body...have said that the body is not more than the soul . . . WALT WH1TMAN, LEAVES OE CRASS Flat-calm summer evenings on the northern Michigan lake of my childhood,...

...imagination and compassion, as he says, not only allows us to injure others, but also injures ourselves: "whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud . . ."4 The achievement of both the story and the film of Brokeback Mountain is a sign that the power...

...the self relative to the highest metaphysical states and conditions of being. Section 48 insists that "nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is" and urges readers not to lose sight of the self in theological speculation. "Be not curious about God,"...