Liber locorum communium

Monday, January 2, 2012

Making a virtue of necessity?

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"The Church falls back today out of love for the world and [as] at the same time forced by it—two aspects of a single event!—deeper an...
Sunday, January 1, 2012

Zangerle on the freedom of the Church with respect to the forms that it has itself assumed

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"Despite the wealth of cultural forms it has itself given rise to about itself [(eben trotz des Reichtums mitgeweihter Kulturformen)],...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Without ANY distinction?

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"men have begun to collect many books and great libraries outside and alongside of the Holy Scriptures, and especially have begun to sc...

There are some diseases that we've never seen God heal

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"As Emile Zola once noted:  The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg."      Mary Karr, Lit: a memoi...

"Fulfill the contract you entered into at the box factory, amen."

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     "In[to the car] climbs big-footed David [Foster Wallace], red bandana around his head, along with a[nother] guy from our [AA] grou...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

"What fun-house land have I crossed into, where the rich seek the counsel of the poor?"

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     Mary Karr, Lit: a memoir (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009), 191.

"We're asleep most of the time, I once heard the writer George Saunders say, but we can wake up."

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     Mary Karr, Lit: a memoir (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009), 190.
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