Work Report - This blog originally focused on work, but it's now focusing on the collection of quotes I've accumulated.

Mike Crowl blogs in two places on Orble, and more than two on Blogger. His wife thinks he writes too much.

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Work Report - February 2011

Flannery O'Connor

February 16th 2011 20:22

IA short quote from the ever-acerbic writer Flannery O'Connor. I love the last couple of sentences!

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed

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Chesterton and dogs

February 16th 2011 18:35

I picked up Chesterton's New Jerusalem this morning, and on the second page, where he's talking in his usual mystical/fantastical way about a dog and a donkey, he writes:

The dog's very lawlessness is but an extravagance of loyalty; he will go mad with joy three times on the same day, at going out for a walk down the same road. The modern world is full of fantastic forms of animal worship; a religion generally accompnaied with human sacrifice. Yet we hear strangely little of the real merits of animals; and one of them surely is this innocence of all boredom; perhaps such simplicity is the absence of sin. I have some sense myself of the sacred duty of surprise; and the need of seeing the old road as a new road. But I cannot claim that whenever I go out for a wlalk with my family and friends, I rush in front of them volleying vociferous shouts of happiness; or even leap up round them attempting to lick their faces. In this power of beginning again with energy unpon familiar and homely things the dog is really the eternal type of the Western civilization. [pg 10

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3 Random Quotes

February 15th 2011 00:35

Three random quotes today - mostly collected in the last few months....

I'm not sure if the first one originated with Douglas Wilson = he's listed as a theologian on Wikipedia - or whether he just tweeted it after finding it somewhere else.
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February 1st 2011 17:42

A couple of quotes from a book I'm reading at the moment...

Things have changed. I still remain as convinced about Jesus as ever (most of the time - I still have my moments when I really hope we're not deluding ourselves) but I do experience a frequent tightening of the buttocks when Christians come up with easy answers to tough questions

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