May 2013
“Anyway, be honest. When was the last time you really listened to an album all...”
– Do You Really Listen To Full Albums? : All Songs Considered : NPR
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“It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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“Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not...”
– Genesis 32:26
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“And it’s what fueled the show’s essential story line for the best...”
– The end of ‘The Office’ - Grantland
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“Not the round natural world, not the deep mind,
The reconcilement holds: the...”
– Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Sonnet XXVIII
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“Maybe the coolest thing about being a teacher is just this: Everything that’s...”
– Once More Around the MOOC | The American Conservative
“I don’t have to be told that Americans are sentimental, earnest, boastful,...”
– Christian Lorentzen · Short Cuts · LRB 9 May 2013
“Intriguingly, when we look at the ancient evidence for the treatment of early...”
– Candida Moss: The Myth of Christian Persecution
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“Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different...”
– T.S Eliot, “East Coker”
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“Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their...”
– from T.S. Eliot, “East Coker”
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“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point,...”
– Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (via habitofbeing)
Apparently this has gone mini-viral since I last checked my Flannery O’Connor tumblr.
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“If you think, as I obviously do, that we have more than enough Sanford-style...”
– Mark Sanford’s God - NYTimes.com
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“Some sort of idea, as it were, was coming to reign in his mind - now for the...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“Call up your courage again. Dismiss your grief and fear.
A joy it will be one...”
– Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Robert Fagles
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“As we fear, so we write. Fearful writing is different from covering the bases....”
– Do We Dare Write for Readers? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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“The same aunt who introduced me to my xiao gu gu was the only child old enough...”
– The One-Child Policy and the Children of China : The New Yorker
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“Part of what helped the church to draw in so many people, Wilford argues, has...”
– The Postsuburban Gospel | The Revealer
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“To paraphrase Douglass, a writer is worked on by what she works on. If you spend...”
– How to Be a Political-Opinion Journalist - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
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“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
April 2013
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“Second: if you’re an academic leader, if you’re the incoming president of a...”
– A Word of Exhortation Prompted By Yesterday’s Twitter Feed | The American Conservative
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“Every reviewer will tackle the challenges of writing about books in the Internet...”
– The Millions : Say Goodbye to the Play-by-Play Book Review
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“O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and...”
– Patrick Kavanaugh, from “Canal Bank Walk”
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“All this talking seemed particularly strange and awful to Rudolph, because this...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, ABSOLUTION (1924)
Fitzgerald repeated the “something gorgeous” line in The Great Gatsby.
“According to analysis by the New York Federal Reserve, around 13 percent of...”
– Young and in debt - Inside Story Americas - Al Jazeera English
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“When Norsemen heard thunder,
did they seriously believe
Thor was hammering?
...”
– W.H. Auden, “Archaeology”
“Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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“The last light fades and drifts across the land—the low, long land, the sunny...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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When someone asks me what the perfect date is
whatshouldwecallme:
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What Didn't Make It Into The Bible? →
I clicked the link and it turned out to be Bart Ehrman. Of course.
“For anyone interested in knowing what the earliest Christians thought about Christ, and God, and many other things, these books are indispensable. On top of that, they can be terrific reading.”
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“It is only in the revelation which God makes of himself on the basis of his Word...”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mysterium Paschale
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“Blogging and Tweeting force speed. Twitter especially guarantees a sort of...”
– Lili Loofbourow on Blogging and the Academic Life « UC Berkeley English Department
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“If I could offer other Duke students one single piece of advice—both for how to...”
– Knowing when Duke’s not normal | The Chronicle
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WatchGreg Thornbury discusses his book “Recovering Class Evangelicalism” with John Wilson
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“[T]he Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd,
and he will...”
– Revelation 7:17
“To use our individual good or bad luck as a litmus test to determine whether or...”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #88: The Human Scale - The Rumpus.net
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“[F]or a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
nodus tollens
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters that you had originally skimmed through to get to...
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“He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“He was a son of God — a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that —...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I forgot how much I loved Fitzgerald’s writing.
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“To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That’s crudely put, but …
If...”
– Gregory Orr
A poem I remembered today, at the end of a really, really long and difficult week.
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“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one… . Humans are...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“An earlier version of this post referred to the Biblical passage from which...”
– The Texan who stole the show at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral | FP Passport
All you have to do to avoid this kind of mistake is a google search, people. That’s all you have to do.
“And even if they don’t find what they’re looking for, isn’t it enough to be out...”
– Jess Walter, from Beautiful Ruins (via the-final-sentence)
“It might sound odd to cite Alain de Botton as a critic of complacent...”
– Richard Dawkins has lost: meet the new new atheists » The Spectator
“These same friends are also all good people who have told me how they are...”
– Yellow Peril And The American Dream - The Rumpus.net
“It can seem puzzling that evangelical Christians sidestep the apparent...”
– When God Is Your Therapist - NYTimes.com
I disagree more strongly with T.M. Luhrmann’s assessment of evangelicalism every time I read another one of her articles.
