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Stephen Gallup
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What About the Boy?
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Deerfield, summer 1960;: A paper submitted for the Heritage Foundation, Aug. 29, 1960
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Let There Be No More “Afflictalogues”
During the summer of 2013, I participated in a small study group through the church I attended in those days.
The group was methodically working through a book titled Who Do You Think You Are? Finding Your True Identity in Christ, by Mark Driscoll.
I’m striving to keep this post short, because when I get started on a topic I generally go on past the limit of anyone’s patience (or at least of my own
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I'm likely to be a long time reading this tome. As far as I know, no other readrs have commented on the dreamlike, or even Kafkaesque, quality that some passages have, such as:
May I walk with you? Again, this is really a stupid thing to say.
You're r ...more "
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Over a period of decades I read probably all of Nabokov's novels except for this one (even the unfinished work that was supposed to have been destroyed). Coming to this remaining beauty now is a real treat. A minor character's name on page one provide ...more |
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"I've always had a problem with how I appear in photographs—the image I see never matches the image I have of myself, the one I’ve retained from looking in the mirror every morning of my life. I’ve often wondered what the difference is, and figured th"
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I've had very little prior exposure to graphic narratives, but am not convinced the format is right for a "meditation" of any sort. Full disclosure: I wrote a memoir about a serious subject that was published in 2011. It was reasonably well received, ...more |
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This is one of those novels that are redeemed largely because of the conclusion. The story is engaging, but while reading I wondered why the author chose to tell it in this way. At the beginning a university lab (in, I believe, 2054) sends a young his ...more |
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"I don’t think I could have read this book without having heard Pete Greig speak beforehand. his writing style is very much like his conversational speech, and that probably would have bothered me had I not heard his voice in my head while reading 😆
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| Here's a story that describes the essentials of what life would be like for women if Islamic fundamentalists took over our civilization. Long robes are mandatory, as are some kind of facial covering. Education is forbidden. Women exist for the pleasu ...more | |
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| Tracy Flick, now in her mid-40s, has always had a hard-driving, "fierce," Type-A personality. In The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe called such people "straight arrows." The problem with straight arrows is that sooner or later real life derails their lofty a ...more | |
“I sensed then, and later formulated the conviction that wellness and potential are every child's birthright. And I'm quite sure that society is served when children have it.”
― What About the Boy?
― What About the Boy?
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“I sensed then, and later formulated the conviction that wellness and potential are every child's birthright. And I'm quite sure that society is served when children have it.”
― What About the Boy?
― What About the Boy?
“The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.”
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“He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.”
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“I knew that we'd never get there. I knew this, in the same way I knew Tati would never be a teacher, and that Benny would be the end of me. Life's about confirming what we already know. About making sure. ”
― Miles from Nowhere
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Thank you, Stephen. Obviously, I didn't dig far enough! :)
Hi Steve,Thanks for the invite. Good to see you here. Have a great weekend.
Ed