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I read this last year. It was prophetic. If Toole had written it 50 years later, Ignatius would have been a terminally online Redittor.

Care to take a guess who started calling him that? ;)

Hence my preference for Hemingway. The tech writer in me prefers short and straightforward sentences. I assume it was the influence of his journalism career. In my American lit course in university, I was captivated by Hemingway when we read In Our Time. It was probably my favourite book on the...

O"Connor wrote two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, but I have read neither as yet. Two volumes of short stories were published, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, and Everything that Rises Must Converge. I have the posthumous The Complete Stories, which includes the...

Haven't read much of either, but given the choice between the two, I'd choose Hemingway over Faulkner. And since I'm a sucker for a well-crafted short story, let me throw Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor into the hat.

... Dank Demoss ... A rolling ... ah, never mind.

"Empathy" is often a sinful distortion of compassion. Joe Rigney has written, Compassion only suffers with another person; empathy suffers in them. It’s a total immersion into the pain, sorrow, and suffering of the afflicted.... [E]mpathy ... shifts the focus from the sufferer’s good to the...

And now, we juxtapose... Lawson is attending a Nashville church, led by a pastor who was fired from his previous church for leadership issues and believes Lawson can be restored. vs. Lawson is not an SVC member, so SVC can’t discipline him, Bachmann said. Welp. Explain to me: if he...

I would imagine that after the previous two pastors, the phrase, "and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves" rattles around in not a few brains .

While we're at it, let's say that afterward, she said "Be seeing you," gave that little salute from The Prisoner, then turned into an incorporeal ball of energy and phased through the ceiling, never to be seen again and leaving no physical trace. I mean, if you're going to invent a fairy tale...

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I see a single cymbal on a stand, along with what appears to be a couple of other percussion instruments like woodblocks. There isn't a drum kit in view. They're probably orchestral--an orchestra might use a suspended cymbal on its own.

Yeah, and if road conditions were that bad, he should have stopped sooner so he didn't end up on the tracks. Early on when I got my licence, thanks to an out-of-town girlfriend, I could have said that virtually all my driving experience was solo, at night, on the highway, in the winter--all...

Sure, but why do you spiritualize Rev. 20 and Matt. 24? Even R. C. Sproul and John MacArthur could get along despite their differences. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Yeah, I think it was Waite's exposé that pretty much tanked her reputation even among fundamentalists, if I remember correctly.

More like "Resuscitating Riplinger." She's not dead, but her credibility has been for several years.

I understand California's water conservation policies, are the result of appeasing environmental activists and trying to one-up the policies of the previous Trump administration. Leading, as you can expect, to this disaster. Didn't last year's Maui fires also burn partly because of some native...

Why in the world? I thought this was one of Trump's jokes, like annexing Canada. Of what "economic and security interest" is Greenland to the US? Do you realize Denmark is in a border dispute with Canada?

We had this discussion a few months back when Trump was criticizing states like Florida and Arizona for passing more restrictive abortion laws. No one believes he's a pro-life stalwart. Carter, to his credit, stood firm on the Hyde Amendment and never repudiated it. But his 1976 campaign...

Carter was personally opposed to abortion, but he supported a woman's right to have one if she chose. Which is a textbook case of the word but nullifying everything that comes before it.