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How does one describe this novel? A postmodern metanarrative - a novel about novels. Italo Calvino weaves a tale of tales, ten to be exact, leaving the Reader (the second person you) to ponder unfinished endings. However there are indeed a redolent c
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“The difference between accomplished birders and beginning birders is that accomplished birders have misidentified thousands of birds and beginning birders relatively few.”
― Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips from North America's Top Birders
― Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips from North America's Top Birders
“In your absence now time is like an empty silence, where untamed memories scream with no threat of separation, in the cruel eternity of autumn.”
― Cross-Stitched Words
― Cross-Stitched Words
“We are called to stand in for God here in the world, exercising stewardship over the rest of creation in his place as his vice regents. We share in doing the things that God has done in creation—bringing order out of chaos, creatively building a civilization out of the material of physical and human nature, caring for all that God has made. This is a major part of what we were created to be. . . . Work has dignity because it is something that God does and because we do it in God’s place, as his representatives.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
“What is the Christian understanding of work?. . . [It] is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties . . . the medium in which he offers himself to God.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
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― The Go-Between
― The Go-Between
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