{between noon & three}

The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellarful of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof grace - of bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel - after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps - suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started...Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, & certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, nor the flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case.

Robert Capon

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{twilight}

[critical mass]

just watched an interview in which ben stein compares ferris bueller's day off with the new testament.
okay.

[friends they are jewels]

i have a lot to do but i'd rather crawl under a rock & look at photography books & read c. s. lewis for several months with a steady supply of sushi & thomas newman...


these are from all saints day. i've been using the digital less & the film canon more, which i've never used before. not sure how they'll turn out (these are digital).

[shine]

In literature the characteristics of the 'consumer' of bad art are even easier to define. He (or she) may want her weekly ration of fiction very badly indeed, may be miserable if denied it. But he never re-reads. There is no clearer distinction between the literary & the unliterary. It is infallible. The literary man re-reads, other men simply read...One may have some hopes of a man who has never read the Odyssey, or Malory, or Boswell, or Pickwick: but none (as regards literature) of the man who tells you he HAS read them, & thinks that settles the matter. It is as if a man said he had once washed, or once slept, or once kissed his wife, or once gone for a walk.
C.S. Lewis

Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, & the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot. He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans & the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot; & Saul son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found. So they inquired again if the Lord, "Is there a man still to come?" & the Lord said "Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage." Then they ran & took him from there. And when he stood among the people he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward...




















..And Samuel said to all the people "Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen?" And all the people shouted "Long live the king!"
1 Samuel 9

i think king saul must be one of the most misunderstood political figures ever.

[the sea & the beast]