May 2008
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“I have left behind illusion,” I said to myself. “Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions—with the aid of my five senses.” I have since learned that there is no such world… —Brideshead Revisited Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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…in reply to Janet's question about the hotel, but HaloScan is out again: This is the hotel. I'm online because I'm skipping the keynote address of this conference, partly because I don't want to hear a speech by someone whose job title is "senior futurist." I'll attempt to converse more in the comments tonight, if…
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I see the very irritating problems with HaloScan comments are back again. At this moment the sidebar shows a comment from Baffled, which appears to be a response to this week's journal, but when you click on it you get "no comments." Likewise, the comments tag at the end of the post shows none. This…
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A Sudden Case of Liturgical Indifference I’ve spent most of my life as a Catholic (over twenty-five years now) being unhappy about the liturgy: the bad music, the bad prose, the whole atmosphere that tends to be either dreary or irreverent or both. I’ve spent a lotof time complaining about it and trying to make…
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The video on my laptop ceased to function earlier this evening, and I'm typing this from my wife's computer. This is really bad news, as I leave Tuesday morning for an out-of-town conference and really need to have my laptop with me. So you may not hear much from me for a day or two.…
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It’s been quite a few years since I heard most of Beethoven’s symphonies, and I’ve decided to go through the whole set in order, attentively, over the next few months. I’ve always had, you might say, a difficult relationship with much of Beethoven’s music, especially the big orchestral works: I just don’t like them as…
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“I could tell him, too, that to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.” Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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One of the blogs I read pretty often, and have been meaning to add to the list of links on this page, is Et Tu?, subtitled “The Diary of a Former Atheist,” the work of Jennifer F., a young mother and recent Catholic convert. I was struck by something she posted a few days ago…
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“It’s frightening,” Julia once said, “to think how completely you have forgotten Sebastian.” “He was the forerunner.” “That's what you said in the storm. I've thought since: perhaps I am only a forerunner, too.” Perhaps, I thought, while her words still hung in the air between us like a wisp of tobacco smoke–a thought to…
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Love and Prayer (a conjecture) A week or two ago I brought up the question of praying to another person’s guardian angel for that person’s welfare. I meant the question quite seriously, of course, but at the same time the voice of logic was whispering to me along these lines: Why do you need to…
Light On Dark Water 