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ESSENCE







"In philosophy, ESSENCE, is the atribute or set of attributes that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its identity. Essence is contrasted with accident: a property that the object or substance has contingently, without which the substance can still retain its identity. The concept orginates with Aristotle, who used the Greek expression to ti en einai, literally 'the what it was to be', or sometimes the shorter phrase to it esti, literally 'the what it is,' for the same idea. This phrase presented such difficulties for his Latin translators that they coined the word essentia to represent the whole expression. For Aristotle and his scholastic followers the motion of essence is closely linked to that of definition (horismos)."







Friday, March 18, 2011

Delilah by Marcus Goodrich

The monk who knew Isla-Sulu well, wanted the Captain to proceed at once through the narrow break in the coral wall that served for entrance into the larger of the lagoons; but the Captain, smiling amicably, and breaking into the Pidgen English which served him as a sort of slang, and which he seemed to fall into whenever his natural disinclination for forcing his will upon people was unmasked by his friendliness or good humour, said that he wanted "to have a look see first". ...His probing encountered only the rounded, colourful implacabillity that the two conjoined atolls presented all along their cirumferences: But the tranquility seemed definitely malignant, -- like that which pervades a brilliant stalk of bananas in which lurks an aroused tarantula.
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