Desiderata for a sacred text

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Dave Bonta

Half-way between a bestiary and an almanac. Multi-authored by an international consortium of the homeless. Heavy on Yes, low on No. Too big to fail. Available only in whalesong, and impossible to translate.

St. Brendan's whale, by Honorius Philoponus, Novi Orbis Indiae Occidentalis, 1621

St. Brendan's whale, by Honorius Philoponus, Novi Orbis Indiae Occidentalis, 1621

About Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with one quadrillion of his closest microbial friends --- a tight-knit, symbiotic community comprising some 500 different species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
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2 Responses to Desiderata for a sacred text

  1. kasturi says:
    December 15, 2009 at 2:00 am

    “available only in whalesong, and impossible to translate” – love that, dave

    great illustration, too – k

    • Dave says:
      December 15, 2009 at 1:32 pm

      Hi Kasturi – Thanks for commenting, and especially on this post which had gone so sadly commentless till now. I was kind of pleased with it myself, but wasn’t sure it would strike a chord with anyone else.