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Almost seems too easy, no?
Archive for March 9th, 2011
The Point of Fasting
Mar 9
Perhaps I am simply an incurable hedonist, but thinking of the Lenten fast as an occasion for moral and spiritual improvement strikes me as profoundly wrong.
“Please try not to rub off your ashes as soon as you leave church, but take the sign of the cross to all those that you meet – in your school, office, factory, wherever you may be.”
“It is important to appreciate that language is not divorced from life. Rather, it is expressive of it, organically so. A dead language is such because the culture it was once expressive of is no longer. Merely translating such a language, out of place and time, is to adhere to arcane interests and cling to a corpse.”