July 27, 2005
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There is no deep point to this post, it is finals week and I am procrastinating finishing my linguistics and holocaust lit exams
...I have been reading CS Lewis since I was young, his essays that is--i've actually yet to read the Chronicals of Narnia. And over the past couple years I've come to see just how much of my worldview, theology, and mental lexicon has come from this mentorship... but lately i've been seeing it more and more each day. I must say that I am truly thankful, that I can read his thoughts and find new wisdom in them regardless of the stage of my own perspectives... in any case, I'm just procrastinating, but isn't he grand? Here are a couple short ones I can give you without my books (alas, they are all in boxes):
"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."
--The Abolition of Man
"...art can teach without at all ceasing to be art."
--from a letter to "I.O. Evans"
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
--The Problem of Pain
"Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask."
--The Problem of Pain
"Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices."
--Perelandra
"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."
--Reflections on the Psalms
"Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves."
--'Notes on the Way' Time and Tide
"In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity."
--An Experiment in Criticism
- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
[edit: ...it is 6.09... i am still up finishing work during what is hopefully my last all-nighter for school... today, today... today is my *last day at Western. wow. ...you have no idea how good that feels to say. so.. let's just hope that i can get some serious adrenaline and make it through all my final exams today. ...i'm not as young as i used to be, this is getting harder...]
- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Comments (8)
damn damn damn
i need to talk to you for a super long time.
seriously.
thanks for the minutes today.
it was worth it.
xoxo
last day, hugh? you got that knot in your stomach? that little knot that comes when moving away from the familiar into the nowhere?
in some ways, i envy you. because nowhere is only nowhere until you make it somewhere. it's like a blank canvas or a stage littered with dancers who have no choreography.
you're gonna create a beautiful piece, love. you are.
thank you for your comment on my post and y'know, i've come to far to fight anything. i'm tired of resisting my REAL self with my NOW self. somethin's gottuh give 'cause this is draining. i cried again right after than post then almost again when i got to work then my lovely wife sang over me and i cried more. i thought about you and a last tear slid down my cheek.
"shes' going away."
i'm not gonna be here forever, but i will enjoy the pain while i am. it will only prove to make my heart softer and ready to embrace anything . . . confront anything . . . live anything. better yet, embrace something . . . confront something . . . live something.
love you.
These are excellent quotations. And the ballerina picture kills me with her muscle and grace. I'm stealing some of the quotations and going on to read more Lewis.
yes, I want to talk, too! can't believe you're in finals AGAIN! Call me when you're free so we can talk...my schedule is much less busy than yours right now
word! Life sometimes can be shallow or very deep. I like to look at it in the middle sometimes. It aslo depends on the frindships. Miss ya kid and congradulations on being done with school!
hey i tried to call you the other day......got some girl.....she wasn't too happy. haha it was kinda funny!! Anyways I miss talking to ya....even though we don't do it that often, but ya would like to talk to you soon, shoot me something, let me know what you number is. Talk to ya later shute.
hey shutie. finally called you tonight, but just got your voicemail. congrats on finishing finals!!! hope to catch up with you "soon".
well... we got no response from the text messaging...
looks like it is going to be the weekend of the 12th... hope that works!
love you...
see you soon??
oh, i need your parents address.
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