I just finished reading this for the second time last week, thanks to the forever book group of Grace. It was equally as lovely the second time around, and while reading it, I wrote down a dozen more quotes from the incomparable Ames, who is both too beautiful a man to be real and too beautiful a man not to be real. (I'm grateful and amazed to know a few like him.) "It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water." (p.82) I have found this to be remarkably true. I see it in myself, and in many others as well. "I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect." (p.91) This seems to be about the only way I experience visions, but because memory is a rickety thing, I tend not to trust them much. Which makes me a poor prophet. "I know, too, that my own experience of the church has been, in many senses, shelte...
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ReplyDeleteThat's an awesome gift for her.
Now I'll have to use her music in one of my future blockbuster movies.
So I just read the lyrics along with Only Skin...
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dude that's bad ass!
yes yesyes. now you have to read the lyrics for sawdust and diamonds. and then listen to it. and monkey and bear.
ReplyDeleteand clam crab cockle cowrie...that one is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteand peach plum pear!! and ..and...and...
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