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The -ism Mistake and Consequentialism 27 Aug 2013 | 05:09 am
-ism has a plurality of functions in English. X-ism, whatever X may be, can indicate a propensity or tendency to emphasize X; or it can indicate a philosophical system or theory that takes X to be esp...
Ronald Knox 25 Aug 2013 | 09:37 am
Ronald Knox died on August 24, 1957. He was an Anglo-Catholic who converted to Catholicism (it was a serious enough matter that he had to quit his job and his father disinherited him) and began writin...
Music on My Mind 24 Aug 2013 | 09:54 pm
This Fall term is already kicking me ten different ways till sundown, and it hasn't even started yet. From this it follows that there is really only one possible theme song for this term. Manowar, "D...
Untombed, Dishonored, and Unchapleted 23 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
Bar Kochba by Emma Lazarus Weep, Israel! your tardy meed outpour Of grateful homage on his fallen head, That never coronal of triumph wore, Untombed, dishonored, and unchapleted. If Victory makes the...
Flower Stolen, and Coarse Weed Left 22 Aug 2013 | 07:36 pm
The Faery Chasm by William Wordsworth No fiction was it of the antique age: A sky-blue stone, within this sunless cleft, Is of the very footmarks unbereft Which tiny Elves impressed;--on that smooth ...
Mellifluous Teacher 21 Aug 2013 | 09:18 am
Today is the feast of Bernard of Clairvaux, Doctor of the Church. From Sermon 45 on the Song of Songs: When the Word therefore tells the soul, "You are beautiful,” and calls it friend, he infuses int...
Esprit d'Escalier 21 Aug 2013 | 07:56 am
By way of Mike Flynn, I came across this list of 25 handy words that English doesn't have. A few aren't technically words (perhaps we should say 'terms' instead). There are also some oddities; Schaden...
Fortnightly Book, August 18 19 Aug 2013 | 04:12 am
I've been going back and forth about what book to do for this busy next two weeks as Fall term begins. I've finally settled on another short work, which I haven't read at all: Booth Tarkington's Monsi...
J. R. R. Tolkien, Roverandom 19 Aug 2013 | 03:23 am
Introduction Opening Passage Once upon a time there was a little dog, and his name was Rover. He was very small, and very young, or he would have known better; and he was very happy playing in the g...
Fredegar Bolger 17 Aug 2013 | 02:11 am
Ah, Fredegar Bolger. You remember him, don't you? No? He was one of the brave hobbit-heroes in The Lord of the Rings, one of Frodo's friends; he played an important role in the quest of the Ringbearer...
