There is comfort in …

• having a good bed in a fireproof hotel.
• reflecting that it might have been worse.
• knowing we are not alone in our anonymity.
• a mother's caress.
• a stranger.
• the strength of love.
• the knowledge that evil is but temporary.
• the perception that we are all in this chaos together.
• using a procedure that gives definitive answers from confusing data.
• business as usual.
• the womb.
• being with those with whom we have spent pleasant and meaningful days.
• knowing the impermanence of all these conditions.
• church light, which is star light incarnate.
• the knowledge that the other shore has already been reached.
• a circumscribed life.
• numbers.
• a hermetic, tidy account of the past, and comfort too in a measured and recognizable voice, leading us through those long ago and lost intricacies.

The only way to survive is to:

• write and read big fat books
• make fun of yourself
• pretend you're not there
• embrace the madness
• run forward as fast as you can go
• be merciless
• work until the wee hours of the morning
• set yourself in perpetual opposition to the system
• gird your heart
• fight back
• become strong
• prevent
• join the side that's winning
• live underground and eat worms
• muster the aid of magic
• laugh
• hunker down
• become more efficient
• be one step ahead
• keep moving
• stay resilient in your suffering
• be totally self-seeking
• stick together
• climb out of the ring
• have a protest strategy from day one
• remove the brain implant
• actually be optimistic and make the best of everything
• stay connected

[Snippets collected through the course of our research.]

You already know the futility of taking "coals to Newcastle," but indubitably it's Bristol that's left cleaning up all that coal spilled on the road and laybys, as we see in Picturesque Antiquities of Bristol by John Skinner Prout, 1893.

"'Absurd, indubitably absurd,' he said.  'Absurd' was the word for today.  'Indubitably' was yesterday's word.  Mr. Phelps said that if you used a new word three times, it was yours." —Ernest Hebert, The Dogs of March  [If you wish to know what Friday's word was, highlight to view: peruse.]

Debate over the Bible's facticity indubitably misses the crucial question: "Is it art?"

Joedirtrules disagrees:

That’s simply not true. Examining the text (in conjunction with archeological finds) to research the origins of the Bible, and thus, subsequently asses the authenticity of it’s purported accounts, had lead to discovering the contrasting rhetoric employed by the authors–amalgamated into the old testament.  They are: J (or Yahwist), E (calling God “Elohim”), P (priestly), and D (deuteronomy). J, is characterized by the vast detail and emotion, and the fact that God speaks directly to people. While, E, writes of mediation between God’s words and the intended recipient.   Point being, it was the very admission of the Bible’s artistic aspects that was asserted in discussions of its facticity.

"Indubitably."

"The world is indubitably one if you look at it in one way, but as indubitably is it many, if you look at in another."

"We would pass a joint and suddenly everything about this world and our place in it seemed hilarious. Simple observations became impossibly profound. Indubitably so."*
—John Grogan, The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir (2009)

Can you guess the subject of this sentence?


Here's the answer in context (in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)

"YOU are indubitably the most important person you will ever meet in your world, in your lifetime.  No one nor anything will ever have as much impact or influence on YOU as YOU."*
—Jeanne Dolphus Cotton, Getting It Together: You, Life and Living (1995)

"Facts are indubitably facts, and wish-thinking has no place in science."*
—The Rotarian (Jan. 1938)

"Iceland is indubitably one of the most interesting spots on the face of the globe."*
—The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review (1862)