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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. —Camus From Plato to Hegel and beyond, some of the greatest philosophers declared that what you think about death, and life beyond it, is the key to thinking seriously about everything else–and, indeed, that it provides one of…
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Gustave Mahler was born on July 7, 1860. If you don't know his music, you probably should. The 1st and 4th symphonies are good places to start. I'll say a bit more later if I have time, but in the fairly likely case that I don't, this post at Inside Catholic has a lot of…
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Pray for this woman: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.stoning/
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By the way, apropos the previous post: there was one item in the Prose folder at the old site which seems not to have had a link to it, so it was inaccessible unless you happened to stumble on it via Google or something. I think I put it out there so I could bring…
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A small milestone in this long-drawn-out business of migrating everything from my old site to here: that handful of non-blog essays and book reviews that were listed simply as "Prose" on the old site are now here. See the "Here" sidebar, the item called Non-Blog Prose Writings. The verse is next. It's amazing how time-consuming…
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It seems a universal propensity of the human mind to imagine that at some time in the past or future there was or will be a paradise. Whether or not one is justified, as C.S. Lewis and others have suggested, in drawing religious conclusions from this fact, it does seem to be a fact. Our…
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Weekend Music I was thinking about this song yesterday and complaining to myself that I couldn’t hear it, because I only have it on LP and I still haven’t replaced the needle that I stupidly broke a couple of months ago. Then I remembered YouTube. I think it’s best heard in the dark or at…
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This piece originally appeared in the inaugural issue of Caelum et Terra. — I walked into Wal-Mart the other day and one of the first things I saw was a big cardboard crate full of Keebler cookies being sold at some special low price. On the side of the crate, in big letters, were the…
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Who Owns America? Herbert Agar and Allen Tate, editors. Contributors: David Cushman Doyle, Lyle H. Lanier, John C. Rawe, Frank Lawrence Owsley, Richard B. Ransom, Allen Tate, Herbert Agar, Donald Davidson, James Muir Waller, George Marion O’Donnell, John Crowe Ransom, Douglas Jerrold, Willis Fisher, Andrew Lytle, John Donald Wade, Robert Penn Warren, T.J. Cauley, Henry…
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NOTE: This essay appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of Caelum et Terra, a magazine, no longer published, in which I had a hand. References to then-current events and conditions in my own life and that of my family are now some years out of date. I have not read The Lord of the Rings…
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