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slow reads | The story of my birth
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Man & God. Man & Man. Man & Nature. Why I, like, like like. How to mark a book. The story of my birth. April 17, 2008. Middot; Add Comment. Middot; In Journal. Each year my high priestess, not without blood, phones to recite the story of my birth. We danced by the Chamberlin. Against a night of few stars,. Colonnade women and poplin men in brick-soled bucks on bluegrass. Heat lightning tugged at tankers in a dark offing. Ablaze above the James River and its own silent ships. The doctor and I worked t...
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slow reads | Why I love the Old Testament
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Man & God. Man & Man. Man & Nature. Why I love the Old Testament. April 18, 2006. Middot; Add Comment. Middot; In Dave Bonta. 1 It does not depict a creation. The usual translations), “When God was beginning to create the heavens and the earth…” God creates as a sculpter does, day by day uncovering an emergent order from the primordial wilderness (see 15, below). 6 The destiny of the individual soul after death is alluded to, but nowhere treated as a matter of consequence. 8 It is full of analogic thinki...
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slow reads | How to mark a book
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Man & God. Man & Man. Man & Nature. The story of my birth. Student blogging: the power of a world-wide audience. How to mark a book. April 18, 2008. Middot; In Critical. We pressed a thought into the wayside,. Planted an impression along the verge. 8211; from “Marginalia” by Billy Collins. I mark in (i.e., annotate) a book for four reasons. First, I annotate a book to create trails. It’s like I’ve blazed a trail for my future self. This is backward thinking, so take advantage of the bargains. People ...
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slow reads | How to mark a book
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Man & God. Man & Man. Man & Nature. The story of my birth. Student blogging: the power of a world-wide audience. How to mark a book. April 18, 2008. Middot; In Critical. We pressed a thought into the wayside,. Planted an impression along the verge. 8211; from “Marginalia” by Billy Collins. I mark in (i.e., annotate) a book for four reasons. First, I annotate a book to create trails. It’s like I’ve blazed a trail for my future self. This is backward thinking, so take advantage of the bargains. People ...
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slow reads | Unless and until
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Man & God. Man & Man. Man & Nature. April 17, 2005. Middot; Add Comment. Middot; In People. Or, Just because you fall off a cliff doesn’t mean you don’t have some hard choices to make. The coyote looks down. There’s nothing beneath him but the warm tones of the desert far below the top of the mesa he neglected to keep underfoot. He realizes he’s going to fall. He holds up a sign to us, or he unfolds a well-used parasol. Maybe he waves good-bye. At all events, he falls. Until has its soft side, too, when ...
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slow reads | They move
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Man & God. Man & Man. Man & Nature. April 17, 2011. Middot; Add Comment. Middot; In People. I got a letter from Nash:. Hi, Peter. I enjoyed your Slow Reads Digest that you pretty much forced me to subscribe to. I don’t get to read books too often, except I check out books on CD from Cracker Barrel when I’m on the road, which is like all the time now. I stared at the box until two in the morning. I even ate three of the olives. I knew I had to visit the farm. How do you get them into position each day?
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slow reads | The mysticism of Abraham Lincoln
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Man & God. Man & Man. Man & Nature. Where kings are born. The mysticism of Abraham Lincoln. February 12, 2009. Middot; Add Comment. Middot; In Abraham Lincoln. Harry V. Jaffa. When I was eight or nine, a relative gave me my first Lincoln book,. The Abraham Lincoln Joke Book. It was hard for me to look into one of those paired mirrors without seeing myself seeing myself many times over, stretching out like mystic chords of memory. If you opt in, the argument goes, you can opt out. She also invokes Jef...
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slow reads | East Coker on the rebind
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Man & God. Man & Man. Man & Nature. Student blogging: the power of a world-wide audience. Staying in their seats. East Coker on the rebind. June 17, 2008. Middot; Add Comment. Middot; In Devotional. I do Last night I patched up my thirty-year-old copy of Eliot’s. Maybe I’m supposed to have internalized all the words I need by now. Since when is fifty the middle way, by the way? Was Eliot flattering himself? What segments each of our lives? What is the late November doing. And creatures of the summer heat,.
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slow reads | Obsequies
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Man & God. Man & Man. Man & Nature. Via Negativa: from “Ten Simple Songs”. From bookfrag.com: Forget post-literacy. I prefer post-complexity. (Ah, but for a niggling doubt.). January 18, 2013. Middot; Add Comment. Middot; In Trill. Where are my dead buried? Have the dead buried them off? Where did we bury Uncle Gi? I hopped on his grave when I was five. The fulvous grass was lined with white in the white, winter sun. Or in this very sock drawer? Why are the dead face up? 8220;Trill” are my Twitters...
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slow reads | Orality and intimacy
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Man & God. Man & Man. Man & Nature. Can kids love grammar? All books are coloring books. April 17, 2011. Middot; Add Comment. Middot; In Critical. A good book or essay or poem is not primarily an object to be put to use, or an object of experience: it is the voice of You speaking to me, requiring a response. 8211; Martin Buber,. 8211; From the diary of Silas Flannery in Italo Calvino’s novel. If on a winter’s night a traveler. Post about what I wanted out of readers and writers was kind of creepy:. I won...
