• I love reading Jane Austen and have read all her novels, but I wouldn't want to be the subject of her satire! I think I'd be scared to death, if I had ever met her, which thankfully is not possible in this life. I first read Pride and Prejudice when, unaccountably, I checked a book

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  • Off and on for the past week I've realized that this song was playing in my head, or rather the chorus was, because that's all I could remember. At first I couldn't figure out why it was there, and then I realized that it was because of all the talk about India in the Rumer

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  • It's been said that Guardini is a big influence on Pope Francis, and that was certainly apparent to me when I read Laudato Si soon after End of the Modern World. If the latter identifies any one greatest practical danger facing man in this new world, it's that his power has grown vastly greater than his wisdom.

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  • Because it’s timely. “I always wonder,” said Lise, “why, in Britain and America, we make Hallowe’en into a frightening thing with, for children, ghosts and skulls, witches, spiders and black cats, when it is the eve of one of the most radiant feasts of the year—All Saints, all those men and women who have shone

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  • I can't tell you how many times I had similar feelings when I was raising children. Not so much about the nightly news and similar things, which we never watched, but about the news/entertainment industry in general.  

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  • Broadchurch 2

    We (my wife and I) finished watching the second series of Broadchurch a couple of weeks ago. I liked it almost as much as the first one. The plot was more diffuse, taking up where the first series left off, with the trial of the murderer arrested in that case, and also re-activating the unrelated and unsolved

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  • I first came upon the name Madison Jones ten or so years ago while reading Flannery O’Connor’s letters. In a letter to “A” dated July 6, 1963 Miss O’Connor says that she was currently reading Jones’s new book, and goes on to say “It’s a shame about his books. They are excellent and fall like

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  • 52 Saints

    Janet is kicking off the 52 Saints series at her blog. See this post and sign up!

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  • There are a number of YouTube versions of this song, most of them featuring images of the things the song talks about. But for me the lyrics are quite enough.  

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  • It is a very windy document. It would have been much better at half the length. It's repetive, and consciously so. From the opening chapter: Although each chapter will have its own subject and specific approach, it will also take up and re-examine important questions previously dealt with…. These questions will not be dealt with once

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