“When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila
That Time Of Year: Chromatics
The weather just turned perfect for Kill For Love.
Met Opera
I highly commend the free preview which the Met Opera is presently running. One free opera per day. This evening, my family watched a bit of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and it was spectacular.
Recommended
Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight (1952) was remarkable.
“That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.”
Catholicism & Orthodoxy
From the chapter in Laurus when Arseny visits a cathedral in Vienna:
“It makes a twofold impression, Arseny reports to Ustina from St. Stephen’s Cathedral. On the one hand, there is the sense of something kindred because we have common roots. On the other hand, I do not feel at home here: after all, our paths diverged. Our God is closer and warmer, theirs is higher and grander.”
-p. 239
The Writer’s Life
The question is not whether you can do it once. The question is not whether you can do it every now and again. The question is not whether you can do it when the Spirit leads you.
The question is whether you can do it over and over again, every week, every month, every year, for the rest of your life.
Lethargy Personified
One of my all-time favorite songs sounds more appropriate than ever.
Headlines
CDC Advises “You Are Enough” During Pandemic
World Health Organization Instructs Infected To “Be The Change They Want To See”
Recent Study Shows At-Risk Persons Should “Live Laugh Love” At Home For Next 6-8 Weeks
What The Quarantine Sounds Like
I’ve been listening to this one for several days straight.
First Loves
The latest episode of Proverbial is up now and concerns Tennyson’s well-known adage, “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.” The episode glosses first loves, divorce, Menander, and so forth.
At present, this is my favorite episode of the show.
