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The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
From a letter to Christopher Tolkien 1 March 1944 ( Read more... ) -
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Had to visit the doctor this morning at 9:30. He was a back doctor/chiropractor/alternative medicine type: I have a sort of scoliosis/generally strange spine that he's correcting. Anyway, he told me that there's some tension in my middle-lower back and that correlates to a part of the brain that somehow involves 'dogmatic positions'. And I got a ( Read more... ) -
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I was watching CSPAN sometime this past week - well, it was when Secretary of State Rice was in... Blackburn (I think), United Kingdom. Anyway, on CSPAN, the British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, had a few words; then Condoleezza had a few more words; and then a Conservative Party politician had a few less words.
The conservative criticized the war ( Read more... ) -
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Go to Wikipedia, look up your birth day (minus year), and chose 3 facts, 2 births and a death.
December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining ( Read more... ) -
Imram (The Death of St. Brendan), part II, by J.R.R. Tolkien
'O! stay now father! There's more to say.
But two things you have told:
The Tree, the Cloud; but you spoke of three.
The Star in mind do you hold?'
'The Star? Yes, I saw it high and far
at the parting of the ways,
a light on the edge of the Outer Night
beyond the Door of Days,
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And patience hath a perfect work
I'm very glad tomorrow is Friday. Very glad ( Read more... ) -
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The rain today was refreshing and I'm mad I had to miss it for school. And then the sun came out at like five p.m.?! Whenever the weather appears to affect me like this I just remember that passage from The Plague about the people of the city being overly invested in the state of the weather and thus suffering and hoping irrationally; and, you know ( Read more... ) -
from the latter part of Alasdair MacIntyre's very interesting 'After Virtue'
"Nothing in my argument suggests, let alone implies any good grounds for rejecting certain forms of government as necessary and legitimate; what the argument does entail is that the modern state is not such a form of government. It must have been clear from earlier parts of my argument that the tradition of the virtues is at variance with central ( Read more... )
