June 2008
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To Know and To Love I can’t seem to stop thinking about Brideshead Revisited. I don’t have time or inclination to write an extensive or systematic essay about it, but here are a few of those thoughts. They do constitute something of a plot spoiler, so don’t read past this paragraph if you haven’t read…
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Overall, I like this one better than the First. I like the second movement, the larghetto, quite well, actually; it has a pleasing combination of lilt and melancholy. And the scherzo is a lot of fun. The outer movements seem, still, like your basic Beethoven and I find my mind wandering away from them. Next…
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Thanks to the computer problems I’ve been having, I’ve used four different monitors in the past week or so, and have discovered that the background color of this page is very different on each one. On the LCD screen of the laptop where I originally picked the color, it’s a sort of mild tan-ish or…
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If you’re not familiar with Eve Tushnet’s blog or her other writings and have clicked on the link in my blogroll, you may have wondered why I’ve included her. She has a lot of interests I don’t share: horror movies, comics, recipes, gay literature. But she’s brilliant, and she frequently says things that just knock…
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I hereby pronounce Brideshead Revisited to be one of my favorite novels, and one of the dozen or so great Catholic novels of the 20th century, ranking with the work of Sigrid Undset, Flannery O’Connor, and all the others. Then I knelt, too, and prayed: “O God, if there is a God, forgive him his…
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And I also hated calculus. But this video just goes to show you how providence can bring good—or at least very funny—out of evil. (Hat tip to Mark Shea.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I have been wanting to do some additions and removals to the list of blogs on the right sidebar, but thought I would wait until I move to WordPress. But that keeps getting put off, and looking like a bigger project than I had thought. So I've added the two that I particularly wanted to…
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Love. Love. Love. On my way back from the conference in Nashville that I attended last week I made an overnight stop to visit my mother (my father died in 2001) in the little town in north Alabama where I went to high school. I put it that way rather than saying “my home town”…
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A friend put me on to this striking song by Sirenia, a goth-metal group (and a spin-off of my favorite group in this sub-genre, Tristania). Since most people who read this blog are probably not interested in that kind of music, I’ll mention that you shouldn’t seek out the album from which the song is…
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On the drive home today I passed a school called Hooper Academy. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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