Downtown Crossing?

...of hundreds of little-related lives

Dante vs Emerson

compare Emerson's bio, anthropology and "cosmos" to Dante's

the main human problem?

it does not recognize how foolish it is

uncommunity

proximities of separate lives

out of time

an epidemia of demi-conscious mundane atemporality

escape!

the conscious need to escape mundane time

Und leider auch Theologie...

Und leider immer noch auch Theologie...

independence

to speak in and of "the first person"

it took decades to reach knowledgably leaving the respected-accepted opinions of others on the Sense(s) of Man in the World

aside