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For many years I've heard the novels of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett recommended, often very highly and sometimes from people whom I know personally and who generally have pretty good literary judgment. I thought I might check them out sooner or later, but they weren't a high priority and I still haven't read anything
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You'll notice that there's no cheery exclamation mark after that title. I bring you this appropriate counsel from St. Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373): God has determined the measure of man’s life, and the days divide this appointed measure into parts. Each day imperceptibly takes its part away from your life and each hour unrestrainedly
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To thee, O Christ, O Word of the Father, we offer up our lowly praises and unfeigned hearty thanks: Who for love of our fallen race didst most wonderfully and humbly choose to be made man, as never to be unmade more; and to take our nature as never more to lay it off; so
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At this point in my life I find myself sometimes mentally compiling, not a desert island list of books and music, but a nursing home (or, preferably, assisted living) list: the books I would take with me if I had to go live in a very small place with one very small bookshelf. I've actually
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(Does Ireland count as part of the British Isles? I wouldn't think they'd be very pleased about that.) I saw this on Facebook, then went looking for it on YouTube so that I could post it here. I was surprised to see that there are a number of videos of the same basic type. There's
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour forth righteousness.. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, my salvation shall not tarry:I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions:fear not for I will save thee:for I am the Lord thy god, the holy one of Israel, thy Redeemer. Lazily searching for
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His latest post at The Lamp's blog is a jewel: What is it about the wind? When I am watching some piece of ancient black-and-white archive film, imprisoned in the time when it was made, a gust of wind will lift a person’s hair or shake the trees in the background, and the whole thing
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour forth righteousness. Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen;that ye may know me and believe me:I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Saviour:and there is none that can deliver out of my
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It’s been twenty years since the release of the first film in his adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. A youngster named Jack Butler, writing at National Review, gives what I think is a fairly good appraisal of the whole effort. I say that even though my own view is somewhat more negative than his. I
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour forth righteousness. We have sinned, and are as an unclean thing,and we all do fade as a leaf:our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away;thou hast hid thy face from us:and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. Back in my Episcopalian days
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