June 2012
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Serenitas
querulus:
praedium amoremque a me tu rapias, scelerate! surreptum eicias; stare loco nequeo. nil moror atque voluntatem adhuc obtineo, vah. caelum abscondere tu luminibus nequeas.
Serenity in Latin? I think so.
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May 2012
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Alan Jacobs on academic time management
ayjay:
Having received some interesting feedback on my previous post about academic life, I’m going to say a few more things about academic time-management, in a things-I-have-learned-in-a-long-life sort of way:
1) I know this is obvious, but I have to say it: you’re never going to write much if you don’t insulate yourself from distractions. I have enough self-discipline now that I don’t have...
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The Dark Light of Thomas Kinkade →
“Kinkade and his devotees have long railed against the nihilism of modern art and the contemporary art world. But because it denies the very foundation of our relationship to God in Christ, Kinkade’s work is more nihilistic than anything Picasso and Pollock could paint, or Nietzsche and Sartre could write.”
“Art can and should at times kill us, destroy our pretensions to virtue,...
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“The idea is common on all sides of the divided church that there is in fact no...”
– Israel, Idolatry, And Separated Brothers by Peter J. Leithart
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Dan Harmon's email about the film 'Monster House' →
I had totally forgotten about these emails until the two tweets above jogged my memory.
This is a story about the nicest thing a non-relative has taken the time to do for one of my children without getting paid for it.
When Salinger was 7 she became plagued with nightmares about the…
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“The various durations of government around the world are linked to the various...”
– What Makes Countries Rich or Poor? by Jared Diamond | The New York Review of Books (via ayjay)
Pretty interesting.
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“If your congregation sings only Hillsong choruses, then their emotional...”
– Faith and Theology: Psalms for all seasons: a contemporary psalter (via gmd)
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“Solid joys and lasting treasure
None but Zion’s children know.”
– John Newton, “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken”
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“We’ve forgotten that, on any recording, real CM [classical music] doesn’t...”
– John Richard Ahern (via lettersfromanut)
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“So what’s the problem? Antoine Dodson possibly said it best when he famously...”
– At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream | The Verge (via ayjay)
Huh.
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“That was the trouble with the sea and the mountains, they made a man think. It...”
– Louis L’Amour, Sitka
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“No man should have to walk the earth alone. A man should have a mate, to share...”
– Louis L’Amour, Sitka
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“Facebook has created presumptive, default closeness among casual acquaintances...”
– The American Scholar: Death by Treacle - Pamela Haag (via ayjay)
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“The real issue, it seems to me, is not whether Facebook makes us lonely, but...”
– Facebook and Loneliness: The Better Question « The Frailest Thing (via ayjay)
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