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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Ronald Knox
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Ronald Knox died on August 24, 1957. He was an Anglo-Catholic who converted to Catholicism (it was a serious enough matter that he had to qu...
Music on My Mind
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This Fall term is already kicking me ten different ways till sundown, and it hasn't even started yet. From this it follows that there is...
Friday, August 23, 2013
Untombed, Dishonored, and Unchapleted
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Bar Kochba by Emma Lazarus Weep, Israel! your tardy meed outpour Of grateful homage on his fallen head, That never coronal of triumph w...
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Flower Stolen, and Coarse Weed Left
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The Faery Chasm by William Wordsworth No fiction was it of the antique age: A sky-blue stone, within this sunless cleft, ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Mellifluous Teacher
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Today is the feast of Bernard of Clairvaux, Doctor of the Church. From Sermon 45 on the Song of Songs : When the Word therefore tells the ...
Esprit d'Escalier
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By way of Mike Flynn , I came across this list of 25 handy words that English doesn't have . A few aren't technically words (perhaps...
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Fortnightly Book, August 18
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I've been going back and forth about what book to do for this busy next two weeks as Fall term begins. I've finally settled on anoth...
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