June 2011
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“Thinking before you write is overrated. There are truths you only discover when...”
– Twitter / @Ihnatko
“The size of a man’s understanding may always be justly measured by his mirth.”
– Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies (via Fr. Schall)
“He said the peak of his college career was a surprise visit he made to Faulkner...”
– Shelby Foote Dies; Novelist And Historian Of Civil War - washingtonpost.com
I’ve been given a cat, which we have named after Walker Percy. He just got a friend, who needs a name. Shelby might do. New cat seems a bit of a troublemaker.
“If interpretation is more like getting a joke than it is like dissecting a frog,...”
– Peter Leithart (from Deep Exegesis) (via wesleyhill) (via mushfromnewsies)
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“The woods to the west of her father’s house were old, hundreds of years...”
– Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword, ch 2 