Description
Thurman references colorful allegories and metaphors in this recording to remind us that focusing on the past can prevent one’s self from achieving fulfillment and helping those yet-to-come. His most powerful reference is to the “new and old wood” of an apple tree. He states clearly that fruit is only born on the new wood, and that the function of old wood is to bear that new wood. He connects this metaphor to the book of Hebrew to explain that without the past, the present has no meaning, and without the present, the past remains unfulfilled.
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Thurman, Howard
Date
1953
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Description by Anthony Fiddes
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 2019.
Original Title
Contradictions of Life (53-6; San Francisco), 1953 [Side B]
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