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« Reply #1161 on: February 12, 2012, 05:54:PM » |
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I had only ever seen the movie before, but I just read The Princess Bride this weekend - way better in book format. And now I want some stew...
Next up, Come Rack! Come Rope! by Monsignor Benson.
That is really good, too. Hugh Benson and Mrs. Gaskell are the two Victorian authors I discovered through many of their books being available free for Kindle. Have you read his book Lord of the World? It's a dystopian novel and chilling, I think more so than 1984 or Brave New World but I read those fifty years ago (yes, I do feel old, realizing that and saying it) and Lord of the World a few months ago. He wrote about volors (flying machines) before airplanes were invented, though he probably knew people were working on them. I think Msgr. Benson died in 1914 and the Wright Bros. first flew in 1915 or 1916. I followed your lead and am reading Lord of the World online...WOW....Ive burned deep into the the 3rd chapter and want to quit my job next week to pour through it in a continual reading. Very good...the prose and narrative are smooth as silk and draw you in deep....fast. The Airplanes described remind me of the aircraft in the anime "HOWELS MOVING CASTLE"...this is a great recommendation! Thanx |
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« Reply #1162 on: February 12, 2012, 10:29:PM » |
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The Facts About Luther by MSGR. Patrick F. O’Hare LL.D. for the second time.
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May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable,
most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God
be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored
and glorified in Heaven, on earth,
and under the earth,
by all the creatures of God,
and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ,
in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Amen.
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« Reply #1163 on: February 13, 2012, 10:46:AM » |
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The Facts About Luther by MSGR. Patrick F. O’Hare LL.D. for the second time.
Does this have something to do with Mith's awesome signature with Thomas More's letter to Luther? |
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"This much I would have you know: so long, I say,
as nothing in my conscience troubles me
I am prepared for Fortune, come what may"
"We sleep here in obedience;
When duty called, we came;
When country called, we died."
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kayla_veronica
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« Reply #1164 on: February 13, 2012, 10:35:PM » |
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The Facts About Luther by MSGR. Patrick F. O’Hare LL.D. for the second time.
Does this have something to do with Mith's awesome signature with Thomas More's letter to Luther? He actually found that letter on a website, I don’t think that’s in this book. I’ll let you know for sure when I’m done. |
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May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable,
most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God
be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored
and glorified in Heaven, on earth,
and under the earth,
by all the creatures of God,
and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ,
in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Amen.
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Divínum auxílium ✝ maneat semper nobíscum.
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« Reply #1165 on: February 13, 2012, 11:39:PM » |
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The Facts About Luther by MSGR. Patrick F. O’Hare LL.D. for the second time.
Does this have something to do with Mith's awesome signature with Thomas More's letter to Luther? It's from Responsio ad Lutherum. Here is a translation of the full text, I could not fit it all in my signature: Come, do not rage so violently, good father; but if you have raved wildly enough, listen now, you pimp. You recall that you falsely complained above that the king has shown no passage in your whole book, even as an example, in which he said that you contradict yourself. You told this lie shortly before, although the king has demonstrated to you many examples of your inconsistency ....
But meanwhile, for as long as your reverend paternity will be determined to tell these shameless lies, others will be permitted, on behalf of his English majesty, to throw back into your paternity's sh**ty mouth, truly the sh**-pool of all sh**, all the muck and sh** which your damnable rottenness has vomited up, and to empty out all the sewers and privies onto your crown divested of the dignity of the priestly crown, against which no less than against the kingly crown you have determined to play the buffoon.
In your sense of fairness, honest reader, you will forgive me that the utterly filthy words of this scoundrel have forced me to answer such things, for which I should have begged your leave. Now I consider truer than truth that saying: 'He who touches pitch will be wholly defiled by it' (Sirach 13:1). For I am ashamed even of this necessity, that while I clean out the fellow's sh**-filled mouth I see my own fingers covered with sh**.
But who can endure such a scoundrel who shows himself possessed by a thousand vices and tormented by a legion of demons, and yet stupidly boasts thus: 'The holy fathers have all erred. The whole church has often erred. My teaching cannot err, because I am most certain that my teaching is not my own but Christ's,' alluding of course to those words of Christ, 'My words are not my own but His who sent me, the Father's' |
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"Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion" - Janet Reitman
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« Reply #1167 on: February 15, 2012, 07:30:AM » |
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I had only ever seen the movie before, but I just read The Princess Bride this weekend - way better in book format. And now I want some stew...
Next up, Come Rack! Come Rope! by Monsignor Benson.
That is really good, too. Hugh Benson and Mrs. Gaskell are the two Victorian authors I discovered through many of their books being available free for Kindle. Have you read his book Lord of the World? It's a dystopian novel and chilling, I think more so than 1984 or Brave New World but I read those fifty years ago (yes, I do feel old, realizing that and saying it) and Lord of the World a few months ago. He wrote about volors (flying machines) before airplanes were invented, though he probably knew people were working on them. I think Msgr. Benson died in 1914 and the Wright Bros. first flew in 1915 or 1916. I followed your lead and am reading Lord of the World online...WOW....Ive burned deep into the the 3rd chapter and want to quit my job next week to pour through it in a continual reading. Very good...the prose and narrative are smooth as silk and draw you in deep....fast. The Airplanes described remind me of the aircraft in the anime "HOWELS MOVING CASTLE"...this is a great recommendation! Thanx Ok finished this book ( 3 days) had to say loved the whole thing except found the ending a little underwhelming. (Id say why but I dont want to be a spoiler) It was fantastically forward looking and amazing in its modern feel. His use of telephony was completely modern in the narrative not silly or dated at all. The book couldve been written last month in many regards! |
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« Reply #1168 on: February 16, 2012, 12:54:PM » |
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Just finished Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Now I've started reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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« Reply #1169 on: February 16, 2012, 02:41:PM » |
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A very depressing book: "Pope Johns Council" by Michael Davies.
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