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Mary, you bring up a tenderness in me that I cherish

Mr. Kingsnorth is finally answering the big question: Is God dead??

I predicted it, but it still made me sad.

I think this guy is about to get really pissed off (read: murdery) on behalf of his sister, which I don't know if I can fault him about...

"Perhaps in Tibet, in the old holy places, they also have such fragile bells. Or are birds really just that, bells come to us—come to this road in America—let us bow our heads and remember now how we used to do it, say a prayer."

Yooo, Jack Nicholson in The Shining reference. The King-verse continues.

"We bring our own worlds to bear in foreign landscapes in order to clarify them for ourselves ... The risk we take is of finding our final authority in the metaphors rather than in the land. To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one's own interior landscape, and the familiar landscape of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves."

I have swapped to the audiobook

"You cannot look at Western painting, let alone the work of the luminists, without sensing that hunger. Western civilization, I think, longs for light as it longs for blessing, or for peace or God." !!!

"With my binoculars I could follow the scarves of turquoise melt water unfurling 400 feet to the sea."

I picked up a physical copy so I can swap from my kindle and start UNDERLINING THINGS with a pen woooo