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Currently in James Romaine's chapter on Rollins / KOS' Promised Land. He mentions Rookmaaker on occasion, but in an imprecise way. It really feels to me that this book is going to be "here's what several Neocalvinist thinkers have said about art" and
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This is my second time reading this book. I'm pretty sure my own political / economic views have changed greatly since the first time I read it; as it is, I'm finding myself agreeing with Mumford — and disagreeing with my own earlier endnotes — quite
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“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
― Either - Or
― Either - Or
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