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“I must have someone to–to do things to” ‘And yet…I don’t know. I believe I have changed my mind. I’ll make them a fair offer, Hilda. I will not meet him, if it means just meeting him and no more. But if I’m given a free hand I’ll take charge…
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Group singing is cheaper than therapy, healthier than drinking, and certainly more fun than working out. It is the one thing in life where feeling better is pretty much guaranteed. Stacy Horn, “Singing Changes Your Brain” http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/16/singing-changes-your-brain/#ixzz2i6Jiv3NA
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Almighty and most wrathful God, who hate nothing You have made but sometimes repent of having made Man; we thank you this day for the life and work of Your faithful servant Jonathan Swift, who constantly imitated and occasionally exceeded Your own anger at the folly of sin, and who…
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The Whole Package
Go YouTube a few Super Bowl commercials and see if you recognize these “types.” This year’s “winning” Super Bowl ad featured an unmarried couple locked in a stereotypical gender/relationship conflict. In this commercial, a “loser” man, in couch-potato posture and engrossed in televised sports, is unresponsive to a strikingly beautiful…
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The diabolical imagination
I would suggest that there are two particular strains of the diabolic imagination in modern society: sentimentality and obscenity, as defined by Flannery O’Connor in her excellent book Mystery and Manners. Both sentimentality and obscenity result from the separation of aesthetic and virtue. Sentimentality is “an excess, a distortion of…
Backward Mutters 