Interconnected nature of all things

Edward W. Said   (b. 1 nov 1935 -- d. 25 September 2003)

"... He was one of those rare people who sought and recognized the connections between different and seemingly disparate disciplines. His unusual understanding of...the human being was perhaps a revelatory construct that parallels between ideas, topics, and cultures can be of a paradoxical nature, not contradicting but enriching each other.

"...Edward Said's understanding of the world made it impossible for him to see only the obvious, the literal, the readily graspable; in his writing and in his life he continually discovered and brought forth evidence of the interconnected nature of all things."

           -- Daniel Barenboim, in his foreward to Said's Music at the Limits: Three Decades of Essays and Articles on Music.