Good ones, Fr. Scott.  I'm going to repeat them when a suitable occasion
arises!   Often in a contradiction, we find...truth (?)...paradox (?):  I
love proverbs, to me rather like "sound bites" of experience and wisdom.
Which is correct:  "Fools rush in..." or "He who hesitates..." Lawyers have
been heard to say:  "It depends..."   I prefer:  "Seldom in doubt...often in
error!" X KnoxDuncan@...   P.S.:  I first paid attention to the
words "diptych" and "triptych"  during my extended love-affair with the
Eastern Orthodox.  Actually, for years I had examples of both on my dresser
at home:  framed photographs hinged together in a bi-fold and tri-fold
manner. Icons are frequently so displayed on Orthodox altars as well as
special writings, somewhat  reminiscent to me of the  "Altar Card" I often
saw on RC altars. With a little creativity on the part of the cognoscenti
our Altar Service (BCP) might be be called a "multitych."

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> On December 29, 1937, Don Marquis died at age 59 in New York
> City. Born in Illinois and educated at Knox College, Marquis began
> his career in Atlanta, where he worked for the Atlanta Journal and
> served as an editor and regular writer for Joel Chandler Harris and
> his "Uncle Remus's Magazine." He moved to New York in 1912,
> where he quickly became one of the best-known columnists in the
> city. While he also worked as a poet and a playwright, he is
> primarily remembered in literary history as the creator of "Archy
> and Mehitabel," a cockroach and a cat who offered wry and witty
> reflections about life throughout the 1920s and 30s. Some of his
> best observations are memorable examples of oxymoronica:
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> "Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity."
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> "The more conscious a philosopher is of the weak spots of his theory,
> the more certain he is to speak with an air of final authority."
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> "Ours is a world where people don't know what they want
> and are willing to go through hell to get it."
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