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@also_psyche

aspiring renaissance woman ⳩ ἵνα σῴζω τὰ φαινόμενα

 The Far Country
Joined May 2022
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Praise we Him whose love divine gives His sacred blood for wine, gives His body for the feast, Christ the Victim, Christ the Priest. Alleluia.
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The euro/dollar conversion rate is dangerous because my brain just thinks of euros as dollars. I am probably spending much more than it feels like I am.
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bri@elendilionsSep 15
happy 49th birthday to the silmarillion!! i am forever admiring the illustrations tolkien made for his stories
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Much of the discourse here reminds me of this quote by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Cora Harrington (@CoraCHarrington) profile pictureCora Harrington@CoraCHarringtonSep 15
Too many people on this app are too comfortable using degrading and dehumanizing language.
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This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours' respect, but he gained — well, you will see whether he gained anything in the end.
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first scene in a book that made me cry (I was six)
hobbit book quotes bot (@hobbitbytolkien) profile picturehobbit book quotes bot@hobbitbytolkienSep 8
“I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.”
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C.S. Lewis, reminders of a future country
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

ALT The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

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Christ accomplished what orpheus could not
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@byzantinecoptSep 3
it’s not that “christianity stole pagan practices” but that there were already echos of truth or prefigurations (spermatikos logos) within these pagan religions & myths that Christ completely corrected. it’s like humanity had pieces to a puzzle & they didn’t know why.
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“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.” —Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle. RIP.
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Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry has given me the desire to read many more of his works, of which I’ve not read nearly enough. “If you could do it, I suppose, it would be a good idea to live your life in a straight line - starting, say, in the Dark Wood of Error, and proceeding by logical steps through Hell and Purgatory and into Heaven. Or you could take the King's Highway past the appropriately named dangers, toils, and snares, and finally cross the River of Death and enter the Celestial City. But that is not the way I have done it, so far. I am a pilgrim, but my pilgrimage has been wandering and unmarked. Often what has looked like a straight line to me has been a circling or a doubling back. I have been in the Dark Wood of Error any number of times. I have known something of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, but not always in that order. The names of many snares and dangers have been made known to me, but I have seen them only in looking back. Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me or I have gone to it mainly by way of mistakes and surprises. Often I have received better than I deserved. Often my fairest hopes have rested on bad mistakes. I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley. And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led - make of that what you will.”
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@athenaeumbcAug 27
Have you ever read a BOOK by an author that was so good it made you want to read everything else they've written?
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I packed all my books in boxes except one shelf's worth. Then I went to a few thrift stores and used book stores. I have acquired 20+ books in the past two months, for under $50, and now I am out of shelf space AGAIN.
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Yesterday for $18: letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, poetry & prose of Wordsworth (with interesting annotations by previous owner!), and Middlemarch.
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Walt Whitman, “By Blue Ontario’s Shore”:
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I find this statement from C.S. Lewis to be more true every year. The beauty we find in this world is only an echo... only a scent of the country we have yet to find.
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

ALT The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

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“be yourself” mistakes possession for authority: because a desire belongs to me, it assumes I should follow it. plato’s republic (IV, 441e–442d) denies this. the soul is internally divided; its order depends upon reason governing appetite.
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In those days Maedhros son of Fëanor lifted up his heart, perceiving that Morgoth was not unassailable; for the deeds of Beren and Lúthien were sung in many Songs throughout Beleriand.
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It is the most sincere compliment to an author to misquote him. It means his work has become a part of our mind and not merely our library.
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How much do we complain about children not reading while we sit on our own phones in front of them, all day?
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C.S. Lewis and patriotism
A man may have to die for our country; but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God; himself.

ALT A man may have to die for our country; but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God; himself.

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Bilbo and Frodo's pity and mercy succeed where Aeneas failed.
Shane Morris (@GShaneMorris) profile pictureShane Morris@GShaneMorrisJan 23
Replying to @Andrewnsnyder
It took me an embarrassingly long time to appreciate the genius of this scene. But when you take The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings together, you realize that the weapons of Providence are not the same as the weapons of evil. Frodo conquered through mercy, not power.
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Passienus@passienusAug 4
The case for Virgil: - 2 epics for the price of 1 (arms and the man) - empire and what it costs - Augustine cried for Dido - invents the Action Girl - provides Dante with his Inferno - 2000 years of debate about what he meant, especially the ending
Iosif Lazaridis (@iosif_lazaridis) profile pictureIosif Lazaridis@iosif_lazaridisAug 3
Vergil's reputation is a historical accident of the fall of the Western Roman Empire that made Homer inaccessible to the Latin West. Vergil is all they had. Global readers (neither Greek nor Latin) exposed to both have decided on the better poet, and it's not even close.
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