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Quite odd, all this pornography in America, a country with a remarkably high
percentage of people who identify themselves as Christians. Kinda reminds me of
Walker Percy's reference in The Moviegoer to the "cult of the naughty nice":
Where "everyone is nicer than Christians and
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Michigan in March
Of all the Meadian gifts from Zeus, the sudden surprise of nature has always
been my favorite. A wise man once said that those who set out to appreciate
nature are the ones most likely to miss it. The converse is also true: Those who
set out
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The pagan gods don't drink mead with mortals for a reason, and it's not
snobbery. It comes from the desire to hang out with their peers–with those who
know they are merely imperfect gods and can jokingly point out their flaws.
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There is an amiable muse and a mordant muse. I'm not sure which should be
indulged more. The amiable muse is more edifying; the mordant muse, more
entertaining.
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Thomas Merton described the Tao as “the simple good with which one is endowed by
the very fact of existence. Instead of self-conscious cultivation of this good
(which vanishes when we look at it and becomes intangible when we try to grasp
it), we grow quietly in the humility of
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Never underestimate your greed. It's ivy in the soul, creeping everywhere,
fertilized by pride.
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"Everyone has within himself something he does not know as long as he has not
searched it out; but if he has searched it out–he shudders." Boethius
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It's Just My Imagination
In the second volume of lectures published posthumously as Redeeming the Time,
Russell Kirk celebrates the workings of the moral imagination (the power of
ethical perception) and contrasts it with the idyllic imagination (the fanciful
imagination of people like Rousseau) and the diabolic imagination
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When a sneering acquaintance told the poverty-bitten Diogenes that he wouldn't
have to eat lentils (a poor man's food) if only he would learn to flatter the
king, Diogenes said his acquaintance wouldn't have to flatter the king if he
just learned to eat