I read it a long time ago, and didn't really grasp all of what was happening. Now, in a pattern that is very, very familiar to me - I am spiking a smaller, focused bit of research that I'm doing by dialing my scope all the way out into a sweeping multi-century intellectual history that's not going to do me an ounce of good.

But it's an incredibly good book. Also reading Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You" and Petr Celcicky's "On the Spiritual Battle" for the project that Blumenberg's massive book is spiking into theoretical oblivion. It's on Christian anarchism as a kind of perpetually out of date intellectual project. It will never be finished.

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"Walleye, a lot of things are going to go wrong in your life that technically aren't your fault. Always remember that this doesn't make you any less of an idiot"

--Walleye's Dad