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“The strange idea that death should be an unnoticeable or unmentionable part of city life was apparently debated in Boston a century ago, when city improvers advocated the removal of the small old graveyards of Boston’s downtown churches. One Bostonian, Thomas Bridgman, whose views prevailed, has this to say,

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\n\"A\"\"\n
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@ablerism Oh my goodness! She’s SO cute!

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@tbcrouch I can’t help feeling that describing IT as The Machine majorly complicates any attempt to make charitable, thoughtful sense of the human technological endeavor — the impulse to make both instruments AND devices.

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@tbcrouch having now gotten to hear PK in person, I’m increasingly convinced that referring to IT as “Machine” not “Mammon” is a major misstep. and, to me as a good Protestant, it is v. significant that Scripture seems quite unconcerned with “machine” and very, very concerned with Mammon.

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“The oddest feature of the 1552 rite is the disappearance of the corpse from it . . . At the moment of committal, the minister turns not towards the corpse, but away from it, to the living congregation around the grave.”

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— Eamon Duffy, quoted in MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer

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“When we dote upon the Perfections and Beauties of some one Creature: we do not love that too much, but other things too little.\nNever was anything in this World loved too much, but many Things have been loved in a false Way: and all in too short a measure.”

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— Traherne, Centuries

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Janus-like conscience: amylouise.micro.blog

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a world of handsome demons: amylouise.micro.blog

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rousseauian, but true: amylouise.micro.blog

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💔

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📖 finished reading: Madame Bovary: amylouise.micro.blog

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“Over the years [Elizabeth I] had sat ensconced in a web of poetry and romance, but money had always been the substance that had welded together the delicate structure.”

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— Somerset, Elizabeth I

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novelty ≠ practicality: amylouise.micro.blog

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life of chuck: meditations: amylouise.micro.blog

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@grmr Life is lovely up North, but I can’t wait to see all of you in November! <3

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@tbcrouch Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia!

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Although, because architecture is a miracle, we are just a few years away from seeing it completed…

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samuel pickwick and bilbo baggins: amylouise.micro.blog

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@grmr i miss it!!!!

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two Herbert personifications: amylouise.micro.blog

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reading Boethius for the first time: amylouise.micro.blog

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“A working landscape was transformed into a national park, in just one of the curious epiphenomena of refrigeration … The river of dead meat flowing into Britain stimulated a countercurrent in live humans, as former farmers emigrated.”

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Nicola Twilley, Frostbite, 81

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“All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.”

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Didion, “Notes from a Native Daughter”

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three words on beauty: amylouise.micro.blog

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he whispers, he hisses, he beckons: amylouise.micro.blog

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“But I do not want you to think that I am waging relentless war against Fortune. There is a time when that deceitful goddess deserves respect from mortals: I mean, at the time when she reveals herself, when she takes off her mask and makes her habits plain.”

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—Consolation 8

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From Donne:

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”As with bodily disease, so also in spiritual disease the state of speechelessness is the most desperate.”

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@tbcrouch 🥳

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some naive and uninformed reactions to seeing King Lear for the first time: amylouise.micro.blog

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@tbcrouch Bartleby’s “I would prefer not to” is great — but we may need Leif Enger’s upgrade: I CHEERFULLY REFUSE.

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“Nothing in Hamlet goes according to plan, but everything happens by significant accident when the time is ripe.”

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—Philip Brockbank, quoted in Tony Tanner, “Introduction,” The Major Tragedies

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