One idea-game I haven't played here for some years is 'Epigraph from Page 100', which aas it sounds involves gathering a possible epigraph from page 100 of any book that happens to be at hand. A possible epigraph suggests possible works to which it might be an epigraph, which is sometimes interesting. I have been thinking about this because last month I had some air conditioning work done, and ended up having to clear out a lot of books from the stairs and hallway to prevent the workmen, much less used to them than I, from always tripping on them. I haven't finished moving them back because I have been busy with other things. So I have a huge number of books hanging around my living room at the moment. The rules are: it has to be a page actually numbered 100, it has to be the first sentence on the page, and it should be more or less sensical on its own.
Andrew Willard Jones, Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of Louis IX, Emmaus Academic (Steubenville, OH: 2017).
In the pursuit of the fulfillment of the "debt of royal power," Louis brought together the long-running discourse on right rulership with that on the moral life itself, and in doing so he provided a convergence between the lay and the clerical.
Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, Louis Infield, tr., Hackett Publishing Company (Indianapolis, IN: 1963).
Admitted that it is illogical to enunciate one's wishes to God, to whom all things are known, that the need to clothe one's dispositions in the sound of words is a human weakness, yet this is the means best suited to man's limitations.
Madeleine L'Engle, Many Waters, Dell Publishing (New York: 1987).
It was a relief to know that he was still on his own planet; even so, he felt lost, and far from anything familiar.
Anthony R. Lusvardi, SJ, Baptism of Desire and Christian Salvation, The Catholic University of America Press (Washington, DC: 2024).
Theodore emphasizes the intention of the recipient of baptism because, as the Good Thief shows, when this intention is present, God can bring to completion the gifts the sacrament conveys.
Edith Stein, Letters to Roman Ingarden, Hugh Candler Hunt, tr., Maria Amata Neyer, OCD, ed., ICS Publications (Washington, DC: 2014).
It is so very beautiful here where everything is in bloom, and I see the beauty everywhere.
George Eliot, Romola, Penguin Books (New York: 2005).
Would any one have said that Tito had not made a rich return to his benefactor, or that his gratitude and affection would fail on any greater demand?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Simon Armitage, tr., W. W. Norton and Company (New York: 2007). (Page 100 is the facing-page Middle English rather than the translation itself.)
And as in slomeryng he slode, sleyly he herde
A littel dyn at his dor, and derfly upon;
And he heves up his hed out of the clothes,
A corner of the cortyn he caught up a lyttel,
And waytes warly thiderwarde quat hit be myghte.
Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England, Simon & Schuster (New York: 2008).
To become a member of a London guild (or livery company) you might need to pay as much as £3.
G. W. F. Hegel, Hegel's The Philosophy of Right, Alan White, tr., Focus Philosophical Library (Newburyport, MA: 2002).
One should not think badly of human beings who make their well-being their intention.
Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Michael Chase, tr., Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA: 1998).
Thus, the totality of human existence is situated in relation to the whole of reality.
The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain, Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams, trs., Penguin Books (New York: 2020).
There were six thousand men lined up on its ramparts
(Hard were the words exchanged with their watchman).
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Wordsworth Editions Limited (Ware, Hartfordshire: 1995).
The level of the sunlit landscape, though flat as a whole, fell away on the farther side of the wood in billows of heavy slope towards the sea, in a way not unlike the lower slope of the Sussex downs.
