October 2010
9 posts
“Blanket 24 hour news failed to grow old, this was no atrocious act of terrorism,...”
– Andrew Raffan writes a great post on amazing rescue of Los 33.
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“A serious house on serious earth it is,
In whose blent air all our compulsions...”
– The final stanza of Phillip Larkin’s Church Going. Mentioned in Part 8 of +Alan Wilson’s series on the Book of Common Prayer.
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To A Medical Student
For haunted, and her generous cadaver, Carl.
This is my body,
The shell of my being,
Which is given to you.
In final offering
To the world
I share the elements of life.
From these old bones,
These ligaments,
My sinews and my nerves
May that life force
That ran in me
Shine forth once more
And pass to you
The knowledge and the power
That help sustain
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“Looking at a Kandinsky painting or hearing Schoenberg’s music for the...”
– Nicholas Humphrey (The Nature of Beauty. Prospect Magazine, September 2010), responding to Stephen Pinker’s suggestion (How the Mind Works) that “music is auditory cheesecake”.
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“The Book of Common Prayer is full of miserable sinning. When, from the 1960s on,...”
– The joy of being a miserable sinner, part seven of Alan Wilson’s insightful series of columns on The Book of Common Prayer.
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September 2010
11 posts
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Bygone Bureau: Are you religious? →
Alice Stanley:
I am religious. This is probably the first time I’ve ever said that so forwardly in public. It’s a nasty thing to be these days. As a liberally-minded twentysomething, I hear religious and think:
Racist southern evangelical biddies
Super rich power churches
People that appear to be average but SECRETLY LIKE SARAH PALIN.
Never do I see myself, even though I just...