Starting "Quicksilver"
May 25, 2005
Attempted to add a guide entry: "Quicksilver: a Daf yomi commendiary"
Introduced the entry, in part, with:
Daf yomi commendiary. Sk/etched by kaspit* as a running commentary on the daf yomi. (At least the daf is always of some yom or another). Trying vainly, in more ways than one, to bring the text into the material. Reading Talmud between the Greek and the Roman, the philosophical and the material, between their Hermes and Mercurius. Reading the Talmud between the Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place. If the rock is the material world, stones flung at the god of commerce, Then a harder place may be found in a textual whirlpool, in a sea of Talmud, in the quicksand** of prior claims and stories. So let’s be slipping into the quicksand, let its traces be slipping through our fingers, grab a handful of quicksilver and “come all the way in… the bottom knows the current better than your feet can.” [~ M. Piercy] Let the comments commence!
But clearly learning h2g2 may be more sand than quick...
If quicksand is for profane days (sand = "chol" = profane), then what is quick+holy?
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