I will cut out from you the righteous and the wicked.
Internal complexity and external diversity in structures are the result of
simple and common units combining and arranging themselves in differing
patterns.
That which dazzles the eye initially and is received as unprecendented is
later percieved through examination of its parts to be a complex but still
entirely comprehensible system.
Baba Mezi’a 59b
R. Nathan met Elijah and asked him: What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do in that hour? — He laughed [with joy], he replied, saying, ‘My sons have defeated Me, My sons have defeated Me.’
February 7, 2012
That which seeks out the exotic redresses the uneven distribution of a
cultural motif.