Incredible readings in Church today, and relevant to the moment. The sin of David with Uriah (I must confess I think about this story all the time, since Jung pointed out to me that Uriah is a figure of Christ), Paul’s letter to the Galatians (always amazing), and the following from the Gospel, on the [...]
“The railroad is to travel what the whore is to love. Just as comfortable, and just as horribly mechanical and fatally monotonous.” - Tolstoy, in a letter to Turgenev.
! This man’s capacity to shock and horrify me - while being ever-so-civilized - never seems to end. Calling whores “monotonous”!
A really lovely tribute to a lady and a scholar, by her husband. Her story is as remarkable as she was:
She had grown up in Lake Providence, Louisiana, a small town in the northeast of the state near the Arkansas border, in what was and still is the poorest county in the United States. Her [...]
On my way back up to the cabin, I stopped at the supermarket in Monticello. I got out of my truck but realized I forgot my plastic bags - I typically reuse them - and went back. I was fumbling around inside the truck, as I don’t have things very organized, and was surprised by [...]
Bellantibus amantibusque omnia permittuntur.
17-Jan-10You can understand the reasoning behind some of these customs of the Sacae (according to Aelian):
“The horses of the Sacae, when they lose their master, wait for him to jump on again. If someone wishes to marry a girl, he fights her in single combat. And if she proves the stronger she leads him off [...]