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Month: January 2019

Posted on January 16, 2019January 27, 2019by Don

Observation October 20, 2019
It’s a pleasant day, and I have the windows open as I listen to Beethoven piano music. The dog yapping and howling across the alley adds a certain something to the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata.
Postcards from Boomer Flats October 18, 2019
John C. Wright recently quoted R.A. Lafferty. Coincidentally, I spent part of the day moving all my Gene Wolfe and Lafferty books to their own bookcase. Over the years I’ve accumulated a bunch, most of them acquired on my regular visits to second-hand book stores. Around the turn of the century, Lafferty’s books disappeared even […]
A consequence of liturgical reform October 11, 2019
Amy Welborn, in a discussion of David Lodge’s novels: My mother stopped going to Mass in the early 1970’s, just about the time that Souls and Bodies ends. It is not that she lost her faith. It is, as she probably would have said, that her faith lost her. She just could not stand it […]