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« Reply #300 on: November 16, 2010, 11:19:PM » |
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Today I read selections from Mary Carruthers' The Craft of Thought, a wonderful, masterful, brilliant study of medieval monastic practices and their relationships to monastic architecture, classical rhetorical techniques, and the ars memoriae. I would commend any of Carruthers' works. She is a gifted scholar and a lucid writer.
Also, I'm reading Dryden's All for Love, his adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra.
But these things are for class. In my spare time (namely, the half hour or so before bed), I'm reading Holbrook Jackson's The Anatomy of Bibliomania, a wonderfully entertaining and edifying romp through book lore and book lust, a veritable intoxicant for the bibliophile.
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More an antique Roman than an Anglican.
"Sero Te amavi, Pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova. Sero Te amavi!"-Confessions, X.27
"The Christians of Carthage have an excellent name for the sacraments, when they say that baptism is nothing else than 'Salvation,' and the sacrament of the Body of Christ nothing else than 'Life.'"
--St. Augustine, De peccatorum meritis et remissione, et de baptismo parvulorum ad Marcellinum, I.34
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« Reply #301 on: November 17, 2010, 01:03:AM » |
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Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, and a book of Tennyson's poetry.
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« Reply #302 on: November 17, 2010, 01:09:AM » |
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Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, and a book of Tennyson's poetry.
You shaved, and now you're in chick-lit? Trying to get in touch with your feminine side?  |
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« Reply #303 on: November 17, 2010, 01:14:AM » |
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Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, and a book of Tennyson's poetry.
You shaved, and now you're in chick-lit? Trying to get in touch with your feminine side?  I did indeed shave but I must confess I have always been into "chick-lit" as you put it. |
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« Reply #304 on: November 17, 2010, 09:59:AM » |
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Today I read selections from Mary Carruthers' The Craft of Thought, a wonderful, masterful, brilliant study of medieval monastic practices and their relationships to monastic architecture, classical rhetorical techniques, and the ars memoriae. I would commend any of Carruthers' works. She is a gifted scholar and a lucid writer.
Also, I'm reading Dryden's All for Love, his adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra.
But these things are for class. In my spare time (namely, the half hour or so before bed), I'm reading Holbrook Jackson's The Anatomy of Bibliomania, a wonderfully entertaining and edifying romp through book lore and book lust, a veritable intoxicant for the bibliophile.
Thank you for mentioning Mary Carruthers' The Craft of Thought. The book looks very good and something I will like. I've read parts of Holbrook Jackson's The Anatomy of Bibliomania a few years back, but did not finish the (very thick) book, though now I don't remember why. Either I was bored with it, or a series of other books came my way that looked more interesting at the time. I might dig it up again and revisit it. |
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« Reply #305 on: November 17, 2010, 06:18:PM » |
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I've read parts of Holbrook Jackson's The Anatomy of Bibliomania a few years back, but did not finish the (very thick) book, though now I don't remember why. Either I was bored with it, or a series of other books came my way that looked more interesting at the time. I might dig it up again and revisit it.
It probably isn't the best book for sustained reading necessarily. While it is rife with amusing anecdotes and quotations, I can imagine that it would become rather ponderous over an extended period of time. That's partially why it makes a wonderful bedside book: it's entertaining enough to hold my interest for awhile, but it also has a welcome sedative effect, haha. It's also a great book for skipping around in and taking up those chapters that seem of particular interest. It's worth having around for anyone remotely interested in books, though! |
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More an antique Roman than an Anglican.
"Sero Te amavi, Pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova. Sero Te amavi!"-Confessions, X.27
"The Christians of Carthage have an excellent name for the sacraments, when they say that baptism is nothing else than 'Salvation,' and the sacrament of the Body of Christ nothing else than 'Life.'"
--St. Augustine, De peccatorum meritis et remissione, et de baptismo parvulorum ad Marcellinum, I.34
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« Reply #306 on: November 17, 2010, 06:53:PM » |
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Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, and a book of Tennyson's poetry.
You shaved, and now you're in chick-lit? Trying to get in touch with your feminine side? I did indeed shave but I must confess I have always been into "chick-lit" as you put it. He deserves to be kicked for that, you know. Chick lit. It's like called a bar of Lindt dark chocolate "candy." Anyway, how can Tolstoy and Tennyson be chick lit? |
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« Reply #307 on: November 17, 2010, 07:38:PM » |
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St. Paul - Apostle and Martyr by Igino Giordani
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Visions of Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich
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I adore Thee O Christ, and I bless Thee, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world!
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« Reply #308 on: November 17, 2010, 09:48:PM » |
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Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, and a book of Tennyson's poetry.
You have great taste. |
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« Reply #309 on: November 18, 2010, 06:48:AM » |
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Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, and a book of Tennyson's poetry.
You have great taste. Thank you but now I've moved on to The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade so you might want to retract your statement! haha |
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