Books
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Sunday Night Journal — October 23, 2011 As I mentioned back in July when I wrote about Houselander’s book of quasi-poetry, The Flowering Tree, I intended to read this autobiographical work next. I don’t remember for sure now, but I believe that decision was made when I took it off the shelf in the library…
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Sunday Night Journal — October 9, 2011 Let me say right off that this is a much better book than I expected, and perhaps better than you might expect if you’re familiar with David Horowitz’s political work. He’s a former left-wing polemicist/agitator turned right-wing polemicist/agitator, and in neither of those roles, where the principal objective…
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I meant to post something about this book several months ago when it was published, then it slipped my mind. I was reminded of it again tonight when I saw it mentioned on Facebook. I think I'll buy it, as soon as I finish a couple of the other books I've been trying to get…
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Last night my wife and I finally got around to seeing this. It's good. I find that I don't really need to modify anything I said last year in a post about Part 1, or back in 2007 after I'd finished reading the book. Moreover, we're planning to go see The Tree of Life Monday night.…
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As anyone who's read this blog for a while knows, we are big fans of Brideshead Revisited here. I am not using the royal or papal "we"; I'm referring to others as well as myself–for instance, Janet Cupo, who has pointed out to me this wonderful site. It is an exhaustive companion to the novel, basically…
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Sunday Night Journal — July 17, 2011 I know Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory by reputation, but have never read it. When it was published in the 1970s, it was immediately considered an important book, and seems to have retained that status ever since, as I run across references to it from…
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Dear one, it is loving that matters. —last words of Elizabeth Goudge's father
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Sunday Night Journal — July 10, 2011 This is something I’ve been planning to mention for some months. It’s been quite a while now—I’m not sure I want to remind myself of just how long—since Dale Nelson sent me a copy of his excellent article on Victorian poet Coventry Patmore’s long poem The Angel In…
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The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him whom thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day, he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern worship is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself. —Ambrose Bierce A co-worker lent me a collection of excerpts from Bierce’s journalism, and I’ve…
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Craig Burrell has a fascinating review of a book called The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages. It's really an essay on the subject, so expect to spend more time with it than you would on the average blog post, but well worth it. In the comments on any controversial religion-related topic at the…
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