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Tristania: Illumination A year or two ago on the Caelum et Terra blog there was a discussion of guilty pleasures, with accompanying revelations. Being Catholics, we were careful to specify that we did not mean sinful pleasures—sin is sin, and when you sin you go to confession and try your best not to do it…
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Unless you want them to learn about love and courage, faith and loyalty, and the importance and difficulty of learning wisdom. (Please, no spoilers if you comment on this.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Men almost always want a bigger television. By that I mean not only bigger than the woman in his life wants, but bigger than the one he already has. Most of the exceptions to this rule are men who on principle refuse to have a television in the house at all, and those happy few…
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A Vignette I mentioned in a comment recently that I have an array of unfinished projects that never cease to whisper accusations of neglect at me. One of them is a novel that I started some twenty or twenty-five years ago. There are a number of reasons why it’s languished for most of that time,…
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The Clientele: Suburban Light One rainy Saturday evening in 1976 I wandered into the only serious record store in town. By “serious” I mean it was like the record shop in the movie High Fidelity—the owner, Paul somebody, and most of the people who worked there were passionate music lovers, zealously evangelistic for the music…
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According to Get Fuzzy–and me. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I've long been fascinated by la difference as an intellectual question (that is, as distinct from the emotional obsession with the opposite which kicked in around age thirteen). I think the interest began back in the early '70s, when radical feminists declared that there were no psychological differences between the sexes, except in those respects…
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You think I'm being sarcastic? Not at all: First of all, I just wanted to make a beautiful thing, and something that honored God. This is from an interview with eMusic which you can read in its entirety here. The topic is her newly-released album, Theology. I'm more familiar with her somewhat notorious and flamboyant…
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Sibelius: Kullervo This choral symphony in five movements was written when Sibelius was only twenty-six and suppressed not long after its premiere, remaining unperformed for many years. As best I can tell from a bit of reading, the suppression was a result of bad reviews and the composer’s own doubts about the work. But it’s…
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This is what America needs. And this is what America deserves. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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