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18 Jan 2019
St. Jerome Bible tips:
1. Psalter, your recreation.
2. Proverbs, your way of life.
3. Ecclesiastes, how to trample the world.
4. Job, learn patient virtue.
5. Gospels, always in hand.
6. Acts Epistles, be steeped in them.
7. Prophets, commit to memory.
8. Canticles, have no fear.
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It is sometimes hard to think about the possibility of communal life, even of the local parish church, when movement rather than stability is the norm.
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The defeat of a cultured monarch of the south (Frederick) thus led to a cultural efflorescence of the north.
Jun 13
"When, after the advent of the printing press, the Venetian publishing houses (the most active in Italy) accepted the Tuscan standard most of Italy followed suit."
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Jun 13
Quintilian on the Trope and Figure of Irony...
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I've felt a closer disposition to Coriolanus' republican "romanitas" than I have for the modern "dolce far niente" Italian temperament.
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For the person who has grown wise in age, the monotony of "second childishness" is like that of the first: experiencing the freshness of things first felt - but with reflection.
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"The reasons why a literary and poetic culture developed first and most extensively in Tuscany are complex and, as far as I know, not extensively studied."
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"So the Tuscan poets, starting with Dante and continuing with, among others, Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarca (better known in english as Petrarch) were the first to produce a literary canon studied and appreciated in all of Italy."
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"When, after the advent of the printing press, the Venetian publishing houses (the most active in Italy) accepted the Tuscan standard most of Italy followed suit."
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8 Mar 2023
A miracle during St. Anthony of Padua's sermon:
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Jun 12
More poetry, probably jokes too, should adopt the structure Dante employed in Vita Nova: first sharing the occasion that prompted the writing of the poem, then the poem itself, and lastly a prose explanation of its structure and meaning
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Jun 12
Thumbs : Agent Intellect :: Other Fingers : Possible Intellect
They are parts of one whole, but the thumb is what enables the hand to form a closed circle and so act as one.
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Jun 10
Somewhat surprised.
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Jun 10
The very structure of the human mind is "other-directed" and has a "world-openness" to it—in other words, its very functioning is dependent on objects external to it, and our intentional engagement with them.
That is one reason, I suspect, why dementia seems highly correlated with social isolation. It's also why digital life is making us lose our minds.
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Another difficulty encountered when studying the history of Freemasonry is that, as with many societies dealing with esoteric traditions, Freemasonry has two accounts of its origins. The first is a strictly historical one, while the second is mythical[.]
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Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic, pg. 63, Alison Butler
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"ERIC MCLUHAN WROTE ABOUT THIS"
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Self-infantalization ("I am just 10 years old / I have a mind of a 14 year old / I am just a girl [I think this is a type]) is a strange phenomenon. I think I get it. It helps the person in evading responsibility associated with adulthood (marriage and having children).
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