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Janet quotes her daughter to that effect in a comment on Kristin Lavransdatter in another thread, and I think a lot of readers have an opinion somewhat along the same lines. If I were going to pick a word to describe Kristin at her worst, it would also start with a “b” but would be…
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At Mere Comments (the Touchstone magazine blog): Top Twenty Books Nobody Reads and Top Ten Bad Books Everybody Reads. The first should more accurately be called "Top Twenty Good (Or At Least Highly Spoken-of) Books Nobody Reads." I can't really comment much on the first list, because I have, in fact, not read most of…
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The Dark Door Thrown Open I’ve spent most of the time that I would normally have spent writing my weekly journal in reading Benedict XVI’s new encyclical Spe Salvi (In Hope We Are Saved). So I’m going to content myself now with some very unorganized comments on a few passages that particularly struck me. I’d…
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Delerium: Nuages du Monde UPDATE: I left out a step in the directions to the samples at the official Delerium site: click on the link I gave, then click on “Discography” to see the album cover thumbnails. This is an album of which I’ve grown pretty fond and which I never would have heard if…
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I’ve gotten into sort of a routine with my weekly posts: write them on Sunday afternoon and/or evening, format and post the music one that night if it’s not too late, format and post the journal on my lunch hour Monday (and of course the music one if I didn’t do it the night before).…
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I did my best, it wasn’t much.I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch.I’ve told the truth. I didn’t come to fool you.And even though it all went wrongI’ll stand before the Lord of SongWith nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah. I’m pretty sure this is lip-synced from the album version. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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It appears all too frequently: an account of a child horribly abused, tortured or raped or murdered or all three. There’s one in the news right now. I’m not going to link to it—if you’re in the US, you’ve probably seen it; if not, well, just take my word for it that it’s horrible, and…
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My Head Hurts I really don’t feel like thinking very hard about anything tonight, so I thought I’d tell you about my headache. It’s a sort of quasi- or semi-migraine that I get sometimes. It was present when I woke up this morning and nothing I could have done would have made it go away…
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Van Dyke Parks: Song Cycle When it was released in 1968, I read some reviews that praised Song Cycle as a revolutionary masterpiece and Van Dyke Parks as a genius— this Rolling Stone review appears to have been contemporary, and gives you a good idea of the reception I remember. But it didn’t sell very…
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My old friend Daniel has an excellent post on Judee Sill over at the Caelum et Terra blog. If you can play YouTube videos, be sure to use the link at the end to see the video he's talking about and hear the song, which is one of Sill's best, and that's saying a lot.…
Light On Dark Water 