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. . . Ah dearest [Maid], what euill starre
On you hath fround, and pourd his influence bad,
That of your selfe ye thus berobbed are,
And this misseeming hew your [love]ly looks doth marre?
Edmund Spenser, The faerie queene I.viii.42. Adapted to the anorexic supermodel from
. . . Ah dearest Lord, what euill starre
On you hath fround, and pourd his influence bad,
That of your selfe ye thus berobbed are,
And this misseeming hew your manly looks doth marre?
Lady Una to her Redcrosse Knight at the point that he emerges, extremely emaciated, from a long imprisonment.
The French model and actress Isabelle Caro is widely thought to have died of complications consequent upon anorexia nervosa.
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O happy Queene of Faeries, that hast found
Mongst many, one that with his prowesse may
Defend thine honour, and thy foes confound:
True Loues are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
Lady Una to Prince Arthur, in Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene I.ix.16.
"no vertebrate brain can match the compactness of an ant's, and no vertebrate nerves can match the almost supersonic speed (210 meters per second) of conduction that Kusano et al. have measured in the humble Kuruma shrimp." Oliver Sacks responding to a letter from Stuart J. Edelstein of the École Normale Supérieure, The New York review of books 61, no. 10 (June 5, 2014): 76.
"Joseph Ratzinger is a learned man who knows that the colour of the Papacy is red. That is why, on ceasing to be pope, he gave up the use of that red, even as concerned his footwear."
Fr. John Hunwicke, "Two Popes?!?", 6 June 2014.
"Blessed Barlaam has called us together to this holy festival and feast-day, not so that we might praise him, but so that we might emulate him; not so that we might become an audience for his praises, but so that we might become imitators of his achievements. Whereas, in worldly matters those who ascend to the great magistracies would never choose to see others share in the same precedence—for there jealousy and envy disrupt affection—in the case of spiritual matters it isn't like this, but entirely the opposite. For the martyrs gain a sense of their own honor above all when they see that their fellow servants have outstripped them in sharing their particular blessings. In consequence, if someone wants to praise martyrs, let them imitate martyrs. If someone wants to extol the athletes of piety, let them emulate their hard work. This will bring the martyrs pleasure no less than their own achievements. Indeed, that you may learn that they sense their own blessings above all when they see that we are secure, and consider the matter an extremely great honor, hear Paul, who says: 'Now we are alive, if you're standing in the Lord' (1 Thess 3.8)."
John Chrysostom, "On Saint Barlaam," St. John Chrysostom: The cult of the saints: select homilies and letters introduced, translated, and annotated by Wendy Mayer, with Bronwen Neil, Popular patristics series, ed. John Behr (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2006), 179-180 (177-189).
