[August 2004 journal entry]
Re Dietrich’s December 1942 observation/proposition that “It remains an experience of unparalleled value that we have learned to see for once the great events of world history from below . . . .” – imagine a spectrum with “no value” at one end and “unparalleled value” at the opposite end. By assigning unparalleled or incomparable value, Dietrich took the step neither the Ecclesiastes author nor the ‘scrapheap’ Job took (at least in the canonical texts).