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I have been tagged by my friend Leon to take part in the Meme.
Book Meme Rules
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
I was not able to grab the closest book to me, due […]

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I had originally planned on writing a rather low-key article on Jane Austen to follow our new theme.  However, in light of recent events, Brave New World has now taken precedence.
In the book Brave New World, families become obsolete and sexuality is reserved purely for pleasure and is not intended for procreation.  Thus, “mother and […]

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What is the purpose of education? Is there a set of natural laws, true for all men for all time, that the young person is initiated into by the wise teachers of the community? Or, is the role of the teacher to facilitate the student’s journey to discover his own perspective without the […]

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I realize that we’re firmly in the “or so” part of the “day or so” in which I promised my next post (see previous post ‘Vive la France!’). My apologies.
For your consideration, I submit the following thesis–courtesy of one John Zmirak–on one of the major turning points of Gallic history:
If you think French peasants […]

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In the spirit of last month’s theme [God for some reason did not intend for me to have internet for most of last month], I would love to introduce you to a Catholic, American authoress of the 21st century who has intrigued me in the last few years—Flannery O’Connor.
She is often associated with words like […]

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Open the pages and suddenly, you find yourself in the midst of a world at once familiar and unfamiliar, a world torn between a group of scientific purists and religious idealists.  Your friends are Mark and Jane, ordinary and unhappily married individuals, each trying to find place and purpose in the humdrum of daily life.  […]

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Disclaimer:
It is hard for me to imagine that anyone could be even slightly less interested in Jane Austen than I am, but my editor has convinced me that I must at least try. I’ve tried to be brief, but failed miserably. Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy my rantings all the same…
Just as “it […]

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When we were commissioned to look at our bookshelves and find a book to pull off and promote, I knew exactly which one I would blow the dust off and first.  The book A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken was now in my hand and I couldn’t help noticed that my heart was beating a […]

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Greetings, fellow sojourners!
I’ve decided that we need to start posting in more categories and finding a more regular rhythm for our musings here. To that end, I invite everyone (and particularly my fellow Luceat! bloggers) to start looking at their book collections with an eye toward the good, the true, and the beautiful.
I plan […]

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