little things im grateful for: - the periods in the past week when i’ve been able to sleep peacefully - the punchiness of Heaney’s “The Forge” - the period last december when i felt intellectually alive for the first time in years - the emotional and intellectual resources furnished by my education - ThreadSky

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1t2ls.bsky.social • 92 days ago

little things im grateful for:

- the periods in the past week when i’ve been able to sleep peacefully
- the punchiness of Heaney’s “The Forge”
- the period last december when i felt intellectually alive for the first time in years
- the emotional and intellectual resources furnished by my education

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1t2ls.bsky.social•92 days ago

I'm having thoughts now, so I'm going to ramble in a very long thread...

1t2ls.bsky.social•92 days ago

One of the strengths of Roman Catholicism is that the liturgical calendar injects into the cycle of the year a drama of expectation, birth, death, and resurrection. It offers a symbolic, emotional, and temporal scaffold which functions as a backdrop for the events of people's day to day lives.

1t2ls.bsky.social•92 days ago

The literature of the liturgical year plays into this. The cycle of readings from the bible, the hymnody, the psalter. The psalter is an interesting case in that the poetry it contains expresses such a huge range of experiences and emotions: rage, despair, hope, victory, vengeance, dereliction....

1t2ls.bsky.social•92 days ago

In the middle ages, when books were treasured objects, hard to come by, it became more important to milk every last drop of meaning out of the text. So one ends up with works like the Ordinary Gloss, or systems like the fourfold interpretation of scripture, and endless commentaries on received texts

1t2ls.bsky.social•92 days ago

[Here i'm going to pass into a mix of fact and generalization, which is not exactly correct.... nevertheless bear with me]

1t2ls.bsky.social•92 days ago

As one passes into the modern age, where this medieval mindset was preserved (among, for example, the Salmanticenses, or certain schools of Jesuits), its complexity and distance from the experience of the text became more baroque.

stevenendicott.bsky.social•92 days ago

Those actually feel like big things

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