First Things RSS Feed - James Andrew Miller https://www.firstthings.com/author/james-andrew-miller en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:54 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/james-andrew-miller 60 Music of the Spheres https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/06/music-of-the-spheres https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/06/music-of-the-spheres Tue, 01 Jun 1993 00:00:00 -0400 In the beginning there was no beginning;

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]]> Contraries https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/05/contraries https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/05/contraries Sat, 01 May 1993 00:00:00 -0400 Tell me everything you know, the sapient sage asked the seeker, and, since the former was, in his role, an editor, the latter filled page after page of all that followed and preceded cause and wherefore and why and when. Which he gave to waiting world and bookman with a flourish, so: here’s the sum of all my learning, all I have, the full measure of all and everything I know. Which was all interesting enough, editor and world said, but not really what we all had in mind: the telling interesting things are what lie curled away from what you first off easily, simply, find: go instead where you haven’t gone; go fast or slow ”return, if you will, and tell us all you don’t know.

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]]> Momento Mori https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/04/momento-mori https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/04/momento-mori Thu, 01 Apr 1993 00:00:00 -0500 What do the living know

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]]> Other Plans: Journal of an Illness https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/03/other-plans-journal-of-an-illness https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/03/other-plans-journal-of-an-illness Mon, 01 Mar 1993 00:00:00 -0500 I

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