Big B

A Cup of Jo is having this Giveaway from Albeit Jewellery and I am hoping to win the necklace below with the Big B.



I am writing a thesis on Heidegger, who writes about Being with a Big B. (Yes, scholars actually say, "The big B Being" in order to differentiate it in speech from little b beings. This confused the heck out of me when the director of our undergraduate program started doing this in lecture at my first encounter with Heidegger. He kept getting flustered from keeping them straight. I was just in first year, so I thought he was talking about honey bees. ).

This year, a couple of my fellow grad students have taken to calling my boyfriend Brian, "Big B" as I have this theory that he is a closet Heideggerian (his ideas about God are totally unorthodox and it is obvious he is describing the big B Being!). He also found a Boston Bruins hat with a red B on it, which he cut out and sewed to the back pocket of a pair of his favourite jeans.

A Big B would be so delightful to wear for these reasons. Plus, just think of the pretty pattern it makes when turned sideways! A little hanging bump-dee-bump!