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Antipopes and Heretics and Things that go bump in the night, OH MY!

“This is why, naturally, rebellion against power takes the form of a call to poverty. The rebels against power are those denied any connection with money, and so every call to poverty provokes great tension and argument, and the whole city, from bishop to magistrate, considers a personal enemy the one who preaches poverty too much.”

This book is brilliant.

“The beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity.”

I’m gonna looooove this book