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Oakley’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Oakley’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Oakley C. Merideth’s Followers (17)
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Oakley C. Merideth
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Arcana: Poems of the Tarot
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| Simplistic, short, but not necessarily wrong despite an expected bias against the reality of the spiritual beyond “consciousness” and a typical and banal misconception of Christian theology. Not bad for an hour on a park bench from a little free libr ...more | |
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| This “coda” to Laurus is a brilliant but oddly challenging work. Laurus is a masterstroke postmodern novel of highly spiritually informed prose that invites readers into a magical-realist (or, really, spirtual-realist) space for the purpose of igniti ...more | |
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| The Anti-Laurus. Disgustingly sublime. In its own way it’s an artistic statement that, on the surface, holds in contempt all I have faith in (on the surface) but even barring a deeper reading this novel is a breath of fresh air. Not simply irreverent ...more | |
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The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945
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I think the structure was very unfortunate—he gives you a quicker but still quite detailed narrative of the event and THEN he gives you a very, very l
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“The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.”
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
― Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
“no one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist. The devil is the greatest believer and he has his reasons.”
― A Prayer Journal
― A Prayer Journal
“The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other”
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“Yo me salgo desnudo a la calle,
maduro de versos perdidos.
I step naked into the street
ripe with lost poems.”
― Collected Poems
maduro de versos perdidos.
I step naked into the street
ripe with lost poems.”
― Collected Poems
“The work of memory collapses time.”
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