Friday, March 27, 2009

a new slogan for the catholic church?




i am part of a NT/early christianity reading group at the university of chicago. we are currently reading augustine's "on the trinity."

here is an especially nice phrase from today's reading (book ii):


"The Catholic Church Only is the Place from Whence the Back Parts of God are Seen."


can't you see that on a church sign?

Sunday, March 08, 2009




this is the sign above the drinking fountain in the men's locker room at the university of chicago gym.

i have always been impressed with the bold punctuation choices made by the sign's designer -four kinds of punctuation in such a small space! including a semicolon!

too bad the sign-maker couldn't find a place for an exclamation mark.
(nb: a mistake i have not repeated in this post.)

all of which reminds me that "semicolon" should be spelled "semi;colon".

thank you.