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Learning the Good Life: Wisdom from the Great Hearts and Minds that Came Before
Keep an eye out for this forthcoming compendium, coedited by the very excellent Jessica Hooten Wilson. Christianityjessica hooten wilsonLiberal educationphilosophical literatureReligion & Spirituality
A Book About Nothing?: A Review of Theology and Geometry
Here’s a review in VoegelinView of the collection of essays on Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolephilosophical literature
Walter Horatio Pater
Born on this date. Marius the Epicurean and Imaginary Portraits are two of my favourite reads. Catholicismphilosophical literaturewalter pater
Giving the Sickness a Name: Walker Percy and acedia
Jeff Reimer in Commonweal Magazine. The artist’s work, in other words, is not an autopsy but a diagnosis made in the hope of recovery—an attempt, he says, to “give the sickness a name, to render the unspeakable speakable.” Even when he is at his bleakest, Percy manages to counter despair with the possibility, however elusive,…
Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel
This about-to-be published book seems well-worth a closer look. graham greeneMartyn Sampsonphilosophical literature
Walker Percy Wednesday – 13
Happy people were worse off in their happiness in museums than anywhere else, he had noticed sometime ago. In here the air was thick as mustard gas with ravenous particles which were stealing the substance from painting and viewer alike. Though the light was technically good, illuminating the paintings in an unexceptionable manner, it nevertheless…
A Confederacy of Dunces: extracts (52)
Have you abandoned your project to form a political party or nominate a candidate for president by divine right? I remember that when I finally met you and challenged your political apathy, you came up with this idea. I knew that it was a reactionary project, but it at least showed that you were developing…
Walker Percy Wednesday – 12
The sun is shining, people live well, go about satisfying their needs and achieving goals, work at creative jobs, attend cultural attractions, participate in interesting groups. This is, by every calculation, as it should be. Yet it was on just such a day as this, an ordinary Wednesday or Thursday, that he felt the deepest…
A Confederacy of Dunces: extracts (51)
His blue and yellow eyes rested on an unopened manila envelope on the top of the toilet. For quite a while Ignatius had been trying to decide whether or not he would open the envelope. The trauma of having found employment had affected his value negatively, and he was waiting until the warm water in…
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