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I once got sick after eating Mexican food, and it was a couple of years before I could even stand the smell of it (happily, that did not last). I was the same way about Philip Glass’s music for a while. I got off to a bad start with him by listening to The Photographer…
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When I dropped this for Lent I wasn’t sure that I would pick it up again, as it had become something of a burden. But I think I’ll give it another try. Part of the burden was that I had, more or less arbitrarily, decided to write and post it along with the Sunday journal.…
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…with whom I hope to spend a lot of time this weekend. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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From Fox News: “Microscopic Peach Fuzz May Be Evidence of Martians.” No link. You would only be disappointed. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Last night we watched this 1996 film version, directed by Trevor Nunn, of one of my favorite Shakespeare plays, and my wife and I both thought it was wonderful (we don’t always agree). It’s very lavishly produced, almost to a fault—one could argue that it’s overdone, but for me the richness of it succeeds very…
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…you should read this review of a new work by John Tavener (via Mere Comments via "Mr. Grano," whom I take to be Rob Grano). Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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The Sword Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. —Matthew 10:34 There’s a certain sort of somewhat educated, yet substantially ignorant, person whose condescension toward Christianity and Christians tries my patience more than open hostility. I’m thinking of the person, often describing…
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A few days ago I made a melancholy, if not morbid, remark about time and loss to a young woman. I realized immediately, but of course too late, that it was rather a heavy thing to lay on a young person, and was reminded of this poem by John Crowe Ransom. It was an odd…
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A few follow-ups to the paleo-future post below: The sad and creepy world of Ray Kurzweil, a technological genius who in all likelihood is going to die a very unhappy man. A couple of obituaries, here and here, for Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke was probably the last of the great sci-fi writers who was formed…
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…to be interested in this. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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