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I had a similar experience with this one as I did with Out of the Silent Planet, which is to say I really enjoyed it. It was definitely slower and more intense than the first book, and had a very different flavor, but still very good in its own right
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""I mean," said Weston, "that nothing now divides you and me except a few outworn theological technicalities with which organised religion has unhappily allowed itself to get incrusted."" — Jan 24, 2019 06:34PM
""I mean," said Weston, "that nothing now divides you and me except a few outworn theological technicalities with which organised religion has unhappily allowed itself to get incrusted."" — Jan 24, 2019 06:34PM
And though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
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“The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist.”
― What's Wrong with the World
― What's Wrong with the World
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong. We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.”
― Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
― Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
“Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.”
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“A myth, though, is not a lie. At its most profound—as Tolkien, that devout Catholic, always argued—a myth can be true. To be a Christian is to believe that God became man and suffered a death as terrible as any mortal has ever suffered. This is why the cross, that ancient implement of torture, remains what it has always been: the fitting symbol of the Christian revolution. It is the audacity of it—the audacity of finding in a twisted and defeated corpse the glory of the creator of the universe—that serves to explain, more surely than anything else, the sheer strangeness of Christianity, and of the civilization to which it gave birth. Today, the power of this strangeness remains as alive as it has ever been. It is manifest in the great surge of conversions that has swept Africa and Asia over the past century; in the conviction of millions upon millions that the breath of the Spirit, like a living fire, still blows upon the world; and, in Europe and North America, in the assumptions of many more millions who would never think to describe themselves as Christian. All are heirs to the same revolution: a revolution that has, at its molten heart, the image of a god dead on a cross.”
― Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
― Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
A Year of Shakespeare
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This is a group for people interested in reading Shakespeare in 2020. The schedule is for one play a month, and there will be a discussion page for ea ...more
This is a group for people interested in reading Shakespeare in 2020. The schedule is for one play a month, and there will be a discussion page for ea ...more
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