It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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Holy frijole. What would Girard say to that?!
That explains why I always crave ice cream when I am on the stairmaster.
dang.
You know, I think Pachomian monasticism argued that too. They were (ahem, cough cough) heretics….
On another topic…why hasn’t there been a Dillard post yet here?
Ahem.
Works from a physical standpoint. The sex drive makes a man want to “pass thru” a woman, his opposite.
I suspect SK means this not in any heretical sense, but in the sense of having to pass through suffering and death in order to obtain happiness and life.