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From Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Lucy has used a spell "which would let you know what your friends thought about you," and what she heard has spoiled a friendship that was just beginning. Aslan arrives: "Child," he said, "I think you have been eavesdropping." "Eavesdropping?" "You listened to what your two schoolfellows were saying…
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Mentioning the best TV show ever in this week's journal reminded me of one of the first entries in this series, from January 2004: The Twilight Zone and the Fall of Liberalism. It will be a mildly sad day when I find that there are no TZ episodes that I haven't seen. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Terri Hendrix: The Ring Most of what I said about the Terri Hendrix album I reviewed a few weeks ago, Places In Between, applies equally to The Ring, so I’ll make this brief. The two albums are very similar in style and quality. I think The Ring is, overall, a more consistent set of songs,…
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Whatever your level of interest in the Latin Mass, you really should read this letter, if you haven't already. It's beautiful and moving. There's a very readable copy at Whispers. "Let us generously open our hearts and make room for everything that the faith itself allows." Amen, amen, amen. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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So, the motu proprio that greatly broadens permission for the Tridentine Mass has arrived. In case you want to read it and haven't already located it on your own—two conditions which I doubt apply to many people who read this blog—Whispers in the Loggia, a blog which chronicles Vatican doings on a pretty detailed level…
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It's always bothered and/or amused me that believers in materialistic evolution can't seem to avoid saying that evolution, or nature, designs living things. Google the phrase "designed by evolution to" (include the quotation marks) and you'll see some examples. It seems to be a verbal reflex that's very hard to suppress, even though it sends…
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I just saw two of them from my office window, maybe three quarters to a mile and a half away. Fascinating. They were quite small, not the city-destroying kind. They were like tentacles coming down out of the cloud (the really dark cloud), feeling around, then withdrawing. One of them found something: suddenly a stream…
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Reveries of a Mostly Retired Smoker Just as there are no ex-Marines, there are no ex-smokers. You may retire from active service, but if you ever smoked, you are a smoker, and always will be. —John Derbyshire I vividly remember my first cigarette, or perhaps I should say the sensation it produced, which I can…
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Too many of them just don't seem to get the idea that you're supposed to dig in your heels as either a Progressive or a Traditionalist. Distressing as it may be, here's another sign that an end to the liturgy wars may be in sight, from the Shrine of the Holy Whapping. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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ZZ Top: Tres Hombres Ok, wipe that smirk off your face: you know you like “LaGrange.” If you don’t recognize that title, click here to refresh your memory (Windows Media sample). I’ve been wanting to hear the whole album for a while, since I read an interview with some famous guitarist, can’t remember who, in…
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