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Gray Space

(Continued from Palm Sunday) From Richard Wilbur’s “Walking to Sleep” — Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion,…

Harrowing Pater

For the first word of the title, see The Harrowing of Hell. For the second, see Pater and Hopkins. This post was suggested by yesterday’s Symmetry and by…

Symmetry

See also “Leave a space,” from Monday.

Epigraph

“Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai ‘Ngàje Ngài,’ the…

Almost

Todd Leopold at CNN today on a novel by the late Gabriel García Márquez — “…a tapestry of almost biblical proportions….” See also Sermon (Sunday, March 6. 2011).

Thursday with the Nashes

“For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.” — Gravity’s Rainbow “I don’t write exclusively on Jewish themes or about Jewish characters. My collection of short stories, Strange…

Legacy

“Leave a space.” — Tom Stoppard

Gray Space

Art Wars  view — image from a post at noon on Saturday, April 12: Kansas City view: Review of Seeing Gray , a book by pastor Adam Hamilton of the…

Clarity from Douthat

“What both cases illustrate, with their fuzzy rhetoric masking ideological pressure, is a serious moral defect at the heart of elite culture in America.” — Ross Douthat in…

Recessional

(Continued from June 9, 2009) “The craziness is receding but no clarity is taking its place.” — Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking A possible source of clarity: