{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Henry Madaga ","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/madaga","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1799999","username":"madaga","bio":"An ultracrepidarian of sort, though mostly medicine, literature, and the Christian faith ✝️🩺📚✍🏾🏃🏾","pronouns":"He/Him","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":5,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2026/36/1799999.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"97791941","content_html":"<p>By God We Shall Do Valiantly: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/19/by-god-we-shall-do/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/19/by-god-we-shall-do/","date_published":"2026-09-19T02:28:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga 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04:50","date_timestamp":1789534227,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97549691","content_html":"<p>To whom shall we go: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/15/to-whom-shall-we-go/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/15/to-whom-shall-we-go/","date_published":"2026-09-15T02:50:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-15 02:50","date_timestamp":1789440604,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97531215","content_html":"<img src=\"https://micro.blog/books/9780486280486/cover.jpg\" class=\"mini_cover\">\n<p>Rereading: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/books/9780486280486/\">The Scarlet Letter</a> by Nathaniel Hawthorne 📚 with the Catherine Project 🥳</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/14/rereading-the-scarlet-letter-by/","date_published":"2026-09-14T18:53:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-14 18:53","date_timestamp":1789412001,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97495459","content_html":"<p>Are you king enough to be kind: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/14/are-you-king-enough-to/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/14/are-you-king-enough-to/","date_published":"2026-09-14T04:27:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-14 04:27","date_timestamp":1789360020,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97449954","content_html":"<p>He knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/13/he-knows-our-frame-he/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/13/he-knows-our-frame-he/","date_published":"2026-09-13T06:10:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-13 06:10","date_timestamp":1789279840,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97429383","content_html":"<img src=\"https://micro.blog/books/9780061974236/cover.jpg\" class=\"mini_cover\">\n<p>Finished reading: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/books/9780061974236/\">The Silver Chair</a> by C. S. Lewis 📚</p>\n<p>Remember, remember the rules. Joshua 1:8</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/12/finished-reading-the-silver-chair/","date_published":"2026-09-12T19:20:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-12 19:20","date_timestamp":1789240825,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97383142","content_html":"<p>Tit for Tat no longer: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/12/tit-for-tat-no-longer/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/12/tit-for-tat-no-longer/","date_published":"2026-09-11T22:59:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 22:59","date_timestamp":1789167542,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97354955","content_html":"<p>Not very sure what’s up with my paragraphs in <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/11/what-do-you-have-that/\">Today’s essay </a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/11/not-very-sure-whats-up/","date_published":"2026-09-11T11:53:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 11:53","date_timestamp":1789127614,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97350338","content_html":"<p>What do you have that you did not receive? <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/11/what-do-you-have-that/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/11/what-do-you-have-that/","date_published":"2026-09-11T10:07:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 10:07","date_timestamp":1789121248,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97266341","content_html":"<p>Come Home: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/10/come-home/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/10/come-home/","date_published":"2026-09-10T02:41:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-10 02:41","date_timestamp":1789008100,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97201958","content_html":"<p>You will have your desire, and despair along with it: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/09/you-will-have-your-desire/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/09/you-will-have-your-desire/","date_published":"2026-09-09T03:47:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-09 03:47","date_timestamp":1788925636,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97121462","content_html":"<p>Thomas Browne:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>there is therfore some other hand that twines the thread of life than that of nature; wee are not onely ignorant in Antipathies and occult qualities, our ends are as obscure as our beginnings, the line of our dayes is drawne by night, and the various effects therein by a pencill that is invisible; wherein though wee confesse our ignorance, I am sure we doe not erre, if wee say, it is the hand of God.</p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/07/thomas-browne-there-is-therfore/","date_published":"2026-09-07T18:13:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-07 18:13","date_timestamp":1788804828,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97120944","content_html":"<p>Abraham Booth, <em>New City Catechism</em>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As the enemies of your soul are inveterate, subtle, and powerful, and your spiritual frames inconstant, it is highly necessary you should live under a continual remembrance of those awakening considerations. What more advisable, what so necessary for you, as to walk circumspectly; to watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation? A sense of your own weakness and insufficiency, should ever abide on your mind and appear in your conduct. As the corruption of nature is an enemy that is always near you, and always in you, while on earth; and as it is very strongly...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/07/abraham-booth-new-city-catechism/\">henrymadaga.com</a>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/07/abraham-booth-new-city-catechism/","date_published":"2026-09-07T17:58:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-07 17:58","date_timestamp":1788803900,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97066709","content_html":"<p>Sin and Age: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/06/sin-and-age/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/06/sin-and-age/","date_published":"2026-09-06T16:55:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-06 16:55","date_timestamp":1788713704,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96999578","content_html":"<p>The saddest book: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/05/the-saddest-book/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/05/the-saddest-book/","date_published":"2026-09-05T08:01:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-05 08:01","date_timestamp":1788595305,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96997322","content_html":"<p>Thabiti Anyabwile, <em>New City Catechism</em>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We human people are so fallen, and we’ve been so fallen for so long, that we actually think that we are the measure of what it means to be human. It’s striking. We say things like “to err is human.” And we unwittingly then begin to define humanity in terms of that fallenness, in terms of its brokenness, in terms of its incompleteness. But if you define humanity like that, what do you do with Jesus? What do you do with Jesus who takes upon himself our humanity, yet, as the Bible tells us, is without sin, who does not err?</p>\n</blockquote>\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/05/thabiti-anyabwile-new-city-catechism/","date_published":"2026-09-05T06:59:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-05 06:59","date_timestamp":1788591562,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96961089","content_html":"<p>Martyr? <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/04/martyr/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/04/martyr/","date_published":"2026-09-04T15:52:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-04 15:52","date_timestamp":1788537147,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96960929","content_html":"<p>On, on, on: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/04/on-on-on/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/04/on-on-on/","date_published":"2026-09-04T15:47:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-04 15:47","date_timestamp":1788536872,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96889973","content_html":"<p>those criticizing Rhema Feast, a warning: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/03/those-criticizing-rhema-feast-a/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/03/those-criticizing-rhema-feast-a/","date_published":"2026-09-03T13:27:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-03 13:27","date_timestamp":1788442029,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96884542","content_html":"<p>Thomas Browne:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Jew is obstinate in all fortunes; the persecutions of fifteene hundred yeares have but confirmed them in their errour: they have already endured whatsoever may be inflicted, and have suffered, in a bad cause, even to the condemnation of their enemies. Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion; It hath beene the unhappy method of angry devotions, not onely to confirme honest Religion, but wicked Heresies, and extravagant opinions.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>To think that he wrote that before The Holocaust.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/03/thomas-browne-the-jew-is/","date_published":"2026-09-03T11:01:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-03 11:01","date_timestamp":1788433305,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96840699","content_html":"<p>Rhema Feast '26: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/02/rhema-feast/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/02/rhema-feast/","date_published":"2026-09-02T18:20:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 18:20","date_timestamp":1788373242,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96828886","content_html":"<p>Abigail and Eve: <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/02/abigail-and-eve/\">henrymadaga.com</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/02/abigail-and-eve/","date_published":"2026-09-02T13:59:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 13:59","date_timestamp":1788357566,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96821227","content_html":"<p>There’s this paragraph in 100 Years that… I find it hard properly expressing the hold that it has on me. And no, it isn’t because it’s the best in the book.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry,...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/02/theres-this-paragraph-in-years/\">henrymadaga.com</a>","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/09/02/theres-this-paragraph-in-years/","date_published":"2026-09-02T10:42:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 10:42","date_timestamp":1788345768,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96709872","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/cupid-and-psyche\">Cupid and Psyche</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fhenrymadaga.com%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F27c4614b07.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n<p><a href=\"https://artvee.com/dl/cupid-and-psyche-18/\">Source</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/08/31/cupid-and-psyche-source/","date_published":"2026-08-31T14:55:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-31 14:55","date_timestamp":1788188145,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96211705","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene\">@isaacgreene</a> You have probably read Anna Karenina. If not, I am really sorry for the following spoiler. During child birth Anna Karenina asks for Alexi Alexandrovich’s forgiveness, in a sense ‘confessing’. The thing is that she does all that knowing she will die. Well, she does not, and that introduces many complexities and complications for the ensuing plot. I have wondered for a moment what it would have been like if Rev. Mr. Dimmesdale had not died on the scaffold immediately after his confession. I feel like that too would introduce quite a bit of messiness. And that’s really the thing for most of us, that, well, after confessing, there’s life to we are to continue living afterwards…</p>\n<p>It’s Alan Jacob’s essay, <a href=\"https://harpers.org/archive/2021/10/crossroads-jonathan-franzen/\">Status Anxiety</a>, that has prompted the thought. You can have a look at it if you have a minute.</p>\n<p>Which ones are the rest of Hawthorne’s books that you would recommend?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/96211705","date_published":"2026-08-22T14:16:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-22 14:16","date_timestamp":1787408198,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96199612","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene\">@isaacgreene</a> I just finished it a minute ago. Wow. Wow. I am almost in tears! This is perfect!!!</p>\n<p>“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/96199612","date_published":"2026-08-22T08:00:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-22 08:00","date_timestamp":1787385612,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95518466","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene\">@isaacgreene</a> What about if one were to read <em>The Hours</em> before Mrs. Dalloway? Or before any of Woolf’s titles. I am yet to own a copy of her books, but I have Cunningham’s <em>The Hours</em></p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/95518466","date_published":"2026-08-10T13:35:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-10 13:35","date_timestamp":1786368942,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94994142","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene\">@isaacgreene</a> yes, it will be my first time. Really looking forward to it. I hope, and really expect, that it will be a good one🔥.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/94994142","date_published":"2026-07-31T21:00:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 21:00","date_timestamp":1785531611,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94857945","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/madaga\">@madaga</a> Sorry I missed the s in Jacobs</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/94857945","date_published":"2026-07-29T15:21:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 15:21","date_timestamp":1785338512,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94857909","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ayjay\">@ayjay</a> Prof. Jacob, I think I really love the current structure of your big blog. The navigations is much more easier than it was before, which makes it less of a struggle to move back and forth. I think I would also appreciate a page with all the tags in one place but that’s not such trouble as it is.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/94857909","date_published":"2026-07-29T15:21:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 15:21","date_timestamp":1785338461,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92928193","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove\">@elliotlovegrove</a> Oh wow. I really didn’t expect that things would turn out as they did; that Smaug would die as he did and that there would be a war afterwards. I felt so moved several times in those last pages. I had, however, had a little of a hard time with the first bits of the book. I hope when I get to reread it I will have much more fun now. I envy you for having read it as a kid.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/92928193","date_published":"2026-06-26T03:54:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-26 03:54","date_timestamp":1782446040,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92106085","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ayjay\">@ayjay</a> This looks nice🔥</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/92106085","date_published":"2026-06-13T13:30:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-13 13:30","date_timestamp":1781357442,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90283993","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/isaacgreene\">@isaacgreene</a> So glad for you! I don’t think I have ever got over the book myself. I am always thinking about how sad everything turned out in the end to be, and how perfectly the story reads every single time!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/90283993","date_published":"2026-05-16T09:40:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-16 09:40","date_timestamp":1778924421,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}}]}