Thomas Millay
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@BorisDralyuk @newrepublic It is also my daughter’s third birthday today!
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A poem for my daughter—just in time for her and her brother’s third birthday—from the June issue of the @newrepublic.
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"The heart of the book is the stories, which are told with evocative first-person prose that places you on the ground with these people."
New in review, Thomas J. Millay on Heath Pearson's Life beside Bars, from @DukePress: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/thomas_j_milla…
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295. Illness, Wellness, and Homelihead - Julian of Norwich and Heidegger with Hannah Lucas
Listen now: anchor.fm/hermitix
Youtube: youtu.be/wD1y9Uhd_5A
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I have always loved Advent calendars and delayed gratification in general. But the Short Story Advent Calendar from @hingstonolsen is far beyond anything I could have imagined! Honored to grace one of the days in this sumptuous, cheerful box. Order yours: hingstonandolsen.com/store/the-2024…
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Back online is Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love (the unique surviving copy of the Short Version, no less)
iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=…
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@joynessthebrave I remember reading about Paul Farmer in Mountains beyond Mountains that if he completed a task (‘Bwat’ in Haitian Creole) that wasn’t on his task list, he would write it down, put a check mark by it, sit back, smile.
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For some silly reason, if I’m struggling to motivate myself to work, writing tasks down on a list that I get to scratch off one by one really works wonders.
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@willanselme @joynessthebrave Bulgakov and de Lubac as not impressive??!!! Don't make me pull my hair out this early in the morning!
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@joynessthebrave The list of alternates gets less impressive as it goes on, though… 😂
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FOR THE LOVE! Not only is Lewis not the best theologian of the twentieth century (Barth? Rahner? Balthasar? Gutierrez? Bonhoeffer? Bulgakov? De Lubac?) he was not, by his own admission, a theologian!! I am begging people to get a grip about this!!!
Sean Berube@SeanBerube4
C.S. Lewis was an atheist for 30 years Finally, one conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien changed his mind So what did Tolkien say? Here’s what they discussed, and how it led to the conversion of the 20th century’s greatest theologian… 🧵
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1) A Hidden Life
2) Song to Song
3) Days of Heaven
4) To the Wonder
5) The Tree of Life
6) The New World
7) The Thin Red Line
8) Knight of Cups
9) Badlands
Eleutheria ✝️🇵🇸🪬♿@BlackestofLies
1) Days of Heaven 2) The Thin Red Line 3) To the Wonder 4) Tree of Life 5) A Hidden Life 6) The New World 7) Badlands 8) Knight of Cups 9) Song to Song
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@NonesuchRecords @caroshawmusic @KenBurns @PBS @AttaccaQuartet @sopercussion @roomfulofteeth @JohnJPatitucci One of the greats
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Here's a bit of "The Mona Lisa" from @CaroShawMusic's original score for @KenBurns's new two-part @PBS documentary, 'LEONARDO da VINCI,' with new compositions by Shaw and performances by @AttaccaQuartet, @SoPercussion, @RoomfulOfTeeth, and @JohnJPatitucci: carolineshaw.lnk.to/LeonardoDaVinci
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@supermercad200o @CriticalInquiry @VersoBooks Writing about a specific cultural product, rather than the more abstract realm of pure theory.
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@CriticalInquiry @VersoBooks What does grounded in this context mean?
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"Each essay takes as its theme a specific cultural product: at least one novel, sometimes several. This is Jameson at his most grounded and interesting."
New in review, Thomas J. Millay on Fredric Jameson's Inventions of a Present, from @VersoBooks: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/thomas_j_milla…
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Wrote this review before he passed. Truly a great thinker. @calebsmith203 @catjonathantran criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/thomas_j_milla…
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@freganmitts I definitely see despair as defiance in Alicia (re: Stella Maris). I find Bobby harder to classify!
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@Agonhamza And carping on Jameson for being overly generous—as if this was just a defect of his personality. Isn’t it rather a result of Jameson’s commitment to Ernst Bloch and utopia as method? Yet Bloch is not mentioned here.
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Terry Eagleton reviews Fredric Jameson's "The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present":
'The Excitement of the Stuff'
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
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@Agonhamza Overall an okay review, but I found some parts puzzling. Was Deleuze really celebrating schizophrenia? Who are the people following Deleuze who did this? (No specifics given here.)
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