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My brother in law once remarked that God seems to send saints to a people that run counter to their bad tendencies.
For example: Slavs can be very somber and self-serious, so He sends them many fools for Christ. Greeks can be a bit lax and lazy, so He sends them a lot of strict ascetics.
For America, our generalized vice is probably being weird and neurotically self-centered. St Olga, by comparison, lived a quiet life of service, compassion, and endless hours of knitting clothes for others. The site for the OCA Archdiocese of Canada describes her as “one who lives in harmony with others, serves quietly, and carries warmth into the lives of those around her,” and that she “spoke little but listened much.”
St Olga, pray for us
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🦋😂 Pat Sajak asks Dolly if she remembers “Puppy Love". She says it's the first record she ever recorded when she was 10 years old.
He starts to play it … wait for it —the SCREAM! 🤣💕
📺 The Pat Sajak Show
— April 19, 1989
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NEW - Pope Leo XIV says "there is no such thing as a holy war," rejecting any religious justification for conflicts around the world: "Only peace is holy."
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One thing I think about often is how in the 1950s, Dorothy Sayers’ translation of the Divine Comedy was known as “the people’s Dante” because it was written in a modern, accessible style beloved by millions. Because we’ve largely stopped teaching poetry, few can now read it.
ALT excerpt from Canto V of the Inferno, translated by Dorothy Sayers
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I regret to inform you that we have officially reached the point in contemporary literature where ordering a hamburger and French fries constitutes serious literary fiction.
This author—whose sentences are as childish as her restaurant order—is reportedly being considered for a creative writing professorship at Columbia University.
These people are training the next generation of literary writers. No wonder our fiction has grown so insufferable.
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Lana Del Rey should be exhibited in a museum with such an incredible face sculpture, I’m not even joking, I’ve always been fascinated by how beautiful her face is that I used to think she got work done on it cause she looks absolutely surreal.
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best Gaga song but you aren’t allowed to say Disease, Abracadabra, Bad Romance, Paparazzi, Perfect Celebrity, Vanish Into You, Replay, Alice, 911, Bloody Mary, Heavy Metal Lover, Scheiße, Goverbment Hooker, Marry The Night, Applause, Venus, G.U.Y, Perfect Illusion, Alejandro
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Our latest free books give-away, open to all worldwide. This time it's 8 books from the last 200 years, and 8 people will be drawn to pick their choice. Retweet this and you're in for the random draw on Sunday 11 October. Proper books these. Details to follow over next few hours!
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This is why civilization is male-coded. Apollonian order is masculine. Dionysus is feminine. Chaotic. Beyond the law. Melodramatic. Paglia:
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En el año 1865, San Juan Bosco soñó que había un hombre alto, de color negro y con cuernos, que tenía en su mano "una linterna mágica" con la cual entretenía a los jóvenes
A través de esa "linterna mágica", los jóvenes podían ver cosas divertidas, partidos de fútbol que se habían perdido, pueblos lejanos, libros, familiares, amigos, vacaciones que habían tenido, dinero que les debían, y hasta "escenas pecaminosas", entre otras cosas
Don Bosco relató que este dispositivo los entretenía tanto que alejaba a estos jóvenes de los sacramentos, especialmente de la comunión
Este texto se encuentra bien documentado y disponible para el que quiera leerlo, en G. B. Lemoyne, Memorie Biografiche di San Giovanni Bosco, vol. VIII, p. 110.
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'Melville was a deep, great artist, even if he was rather a sententious man. He was a real American in that he always felt his audience in front of him. But when he ceases to be American, when he forgets all audience, and gives us his sheer apprehension of the world, then he is wonderful, his book commands a stillness in the soul, an awe.'
DH Lawrence
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Released in the summer of 1959, this song still carries the same timeless charm and appeal today.
