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I’m concerned that some people may not be obeying my order following my advice to rent the Heima DVD. So here’s a clip from it featuring one of the band’s most immediately appealing songs. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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C.S. Lewis’s Idea of Joy I recently re-read C.S. Lewis’s autobiography Surprised by Joy, partly because I wanted to think again about the experience to which he gave the name Joy and defined as: …an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical…
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The author of some of my favorite mysteries died yesterday. Here is a nice obituary, one of a great many that will no doubt be forthcoming. I’ve spent many enjoyable hours listening to his books on tape or cd while traveling, and there are still some I haven’t read, so I have them to look…
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The pronunciation of Sigur Rós seems to be, very roughly: “seeger,” as in Bob Seeger, “rohss”—“o” as in “rose”, “s” as in “toss.” According to the Wikipedia article on the band it means “victory rose,” and is the name of the singer’s baby sister, who was born on the day the band was formed. That…
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No, I’m not going to make this a regular feature. I just happened to think about this song and found it on YouTube. There’s no actual video, so don’t bother watching, just listen. If you like this, don’t go looking for the album expecting to hear more of the same, as the rest of it…
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I’m feeling guilty about having kept this book, Sigrid Undset on Saints and Sinners, checked out of the library for quite a number of months now. Before I return it I wanted to post the following snippet, apropos the discussion we were having a few days ago (I forget which thread) on the mistake of…
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On the financial crisis: I don’t understand this stuff in the least, but the picture that has emerged strikes me as a sort of witches’ brew of deregulation and government fiddling in the market. Government seems to have encouraged foolish risk-taking while failing to restrain the predators who predictably took advantage of the situation. This…
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Madonna’s Living Death No limited object, however beautiful, is able to appease the inner hunger that consumes you, because as soon as you possess it you have exhausted it. —Fr. Henri-Dominique Lacordaire I’ve found Madonna an irritating presence on the public scene ever since she appeared there. At the time, the early or mid-‘80s, I…
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From C.S. Lewis’s autobiography: …Kirk had said of me in a letter to my father…, “You may make a writer or a scholar of him, but you’ll not make anything else. You may make your mind up to that.” Though in my case “scholar” wouldn’t really have worked, either. And “may” should have been emphasized.…
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But love is not a victory marchIt’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah —Leonard Cohen Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
Light On Dark Water 