September 2011
14 posts
“In 1910 a group of English friends, including Virginia Woolf and her brother...”
– Wikipedia, on the root of the phrase Bunga bunga.
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“The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us...”
– C.S. Lewis (via congratulationstomeetyou)
Journey away from the center of the Earth →
The Endeavour:
What point on Earth is farthest from its centre?
Hint: It’s not Mt Everest.?
“To feel you in my veins like God in the rivers
and adore you in the sorrowful...”
– Pablo Neruda (via Kashif Nadim Chaudry)
The 9/11 Letters, Naomi Alderman →
Naomi Alderman’s break up letter to God following the events of September 11th, 2001, commissioned for the BBC’s Book of the Week, is a truly poignant, painful reflection.
“But you don’t leave me alone. Of course you don’t. When did you leave anyone alone who just asked you nicely. I’ve had a whole life around you to unpick: My family still love you, my dear...
“Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in...”
– Wisdom 1:1 (DRA)
Something to share with my Father. One day.
Tenebrae: Turtle Dove - Trad arr R Vaughan...
Our secret weddings →
I’d always thought that I’d want to be married (One day, one day. Have patience) in a big ceremony, but having read these stories of secret weddings the thought of a small sunlit chapel, with just one or two close friends and God as witnesses, is immensely appealing.
“It is one thing for scientists to oppose creationism which is demonstrably false...”
– Max Perutz (THE, Nov 1994).
