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Discussion on the previous post led to mention of the phenomenon in which those of us who grew up reading a lot pick up words that aren't used by the people around us, so that we invent our own pronunciations, which are not always correct. I experienced a slight variation of this: in at least…
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I don't know when I've seen a more perfect harmony of title and art on an album cover. I wonder if I should make it my Facebook profile picture. If this link works, you can hear samples.
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Janet mentioned this several days ago, but I didn't have time to read it then, and then forgot about it until this morning. I'm very sympathetic, but, as Hart seems to suspect, that way madness lies. Or at least a grave social difficulty: you'll become a person everyone hates if you insist on correcting these…
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Sunday Night Journal — July 31, 2011 I picked up this little book at a used-book sale a few weeks ago and immediately began reading it, partly because it’s so short. I’ve had a copy of The Reed of God sitting around the house unread for years, and have encountered intriguing samples of Houselander’s work…
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I was amused (and complimented) by the remark a few days ago from our resident film and theology expert that "almost anything Mac posts including pictures of herons tells us more about the meaning of life" than the political commentary I had linked to. It reminded me that I have another heron picture I've been…
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Weekend Music Here are two sections of the Duruflé Requiem that I heard last night as part of the Requiem Mass I mentioned yesterday (see here). I was only going to post one, but I couldn’t make up my mind. I thought I remembered my recording, which I haven’t listened to for many years, having…
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Lucky me, huh? *** postscript, afterwards: …and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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A 15-pound (6.8kg) hamburger. Your horror should be tempered by the knowledge that it's meant to feed ten to fifteen people, but still…. And of course there must be a contest to see if anyone can eat the whole thing by himself. Note the word "Mallett" on the guy's t-shirt. That surely is a reference…
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At Front Porch Republic, by Walter A. McDougall: Part 1: The Challenge Confronting Conservatives and Part 2: Sustaining a Republic of Hustlers
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As anyone who's read this blog for a while knows, we are big fans of Brideshead Revisited here. I am not using the royal or papal "we"; I'm referring to others as well as myself–for instance, Janet Cupo, who has pointed out to me this wonderful site. It is an exhaustive companion to the novel, basically…
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