forgive me joan

We read, but also we are read by, others. Interferences in these readings. Forcing someone to read himself as we read him (slavery). Forcing others to read us as we read ourselves (conquest). A mechanical process. More often than not a dialogue between deaf people.

direct correlation to the I, it relationship in both cases.

We can be unjust through the will to offend justice or through a wrong reading of justice-but the second is nearly always the case.

Joan of Arc: those who declaim about her today would nearly all have condemned her. Moreover, her judges did not condemn the saint, the virgin, etc., but the witch, the heretic, etc.

Working to push against the grain of popular culture is nearly an impossible task these days. Even 'alternative' education, 'alternative' reading, 'alternative' music, 'alternative' lifestyles are running alongside popular culture if not the same grain. There is an important distinction between unnatural and supernatural. All that pushes against gravity is lacking if not by means of divine Grace.

...Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do...(Luke 23:34)

...the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service...(John 16:2)

Readings. Reading-except where there is a certain quality of attention-obeys the law of gravity. We read the opinions suggested by gravity (the preponderant part played by the passions and by social conformity in the judgments we form of men and events).

With a higher quality of attention our reading discovers gravity itself, and various systems of possible balance.

we must move beyond the immediate and into the orient of process. Not all things are certain and it is important to allow our readings to move and change over time. Certainty is a quality of the potentially facist individual, or perhaps a pharisee. People move and change over time as do we.