Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate. —Newman
I’m told that SUNY Albany now prefers to be called “UAlbany.” I suggest a southern flavor: “Y’allbany.”
Since in prayer we are with God, prayer is its own reward.
On praying to Mary: Perhaps, think of it this way: we are cup measures; Mary deserves a quart (or more), God, a gallon (or much more, up to infinity). Knowing that Mary is not God, we always try to pray our full cup.
Ernest Hemmingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
Charles Scribner III, Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing
The poor Roman Catholics, obliged to start from scratch, have produced an English Mass which is a cacophonous monstrosity (the German version is quite good, but German has a certain natural sonority: But why should we imitate them? —W. H. Auden
O+A on their way to OIA (official sign).
Jesus was God and Man, not God and Superman.
Those of us who are bad Catholics need the TLM more than those of us who are good Catholics.
Jᴇʀᴇᴍɪᴀʜ. [Coming forward] Dismay speaks; concern for Jerusalem cries aloud; the mouth of terror is opened. I speak for Israel, and for the life of Israel. —Sefan Zweig, Jeremiah, Scene Two
Balloon Flower
Lᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ Aᴜᴛʜᴏʀ ᴏғ Iɴsᴄʀɪʙᴇᴅ Cᴏᴘʏ ᴏғ Bᴏᴏᴋ
Dear Mr. Emanuel Flower,
It was kind of you to think of sending me a copy of your new book. It would have been kinder still to think again and abandon that project. I am a man of gentle instincts, and do not like to tell you that ‘______ ______ ___ ___________’ (of which I have skimmed a few pages, thus wasting two or three minutes of my not altogether worthless time) is trash. On the other hand, I am determined that you shall not be able to go around boasting to your friends, if you have any, that this work was not condemned, derided, and dismissed by your sincere well-wisher,
Wrexford Cripps
The Enlightenment and Democracy are dead.
For better or worse, we in the modern West are all children of the Enlightenment in one way or another, and any wholesale abandonment of democratic institutions must seem an unrealistic proposal to the honest observer. —Matthew Pheneger
Actually, the Enlightenment is dead, and democracy had been abandoned, especially (in the United States) by Democrats.
The first step of wisdom is to admit, with good humor, that our ideas have no reason to interest anybody. —Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Two Articles on Nicolás Gómez Dávila: waisberg.micro.blog/2023/09/0…
… the professoriate of the better universities, which ‘was predominantly Liberal and Leftist, many of them Henry Wallace voters’. John P. McCarthy
Was it John Herman Randall, Jr., who told a Columbia philosophy class in 1968 that the last presidential candidate worth voting for was Henry Wallace?
O+A in Albany and Santorini
