Three passages from Lord Dunsany: (more…)
I saw the other day the Sphinx’s painted face.
She had painted her face in order to ogle Time.
And he has spared no other painted face in all the world but hers.
Delilah was younger than she, and Delilah is dust. Time hath loved nothing but this worthless painted face. (more…)
The flower of the pear-tree gathers and turns to fruit;
The swallows’ eggs have hatched into young birds.
When the Seasons’ changes thus confront the mind
What comfort can the Doctrine of Tao give? (more…)
All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. (more…)
Places long unseen often loom larger in memory than they really are. That haystack on the old farm . . . that green lane . . . that high fence in the back yard and the tree we climbed to look over it – surely they were an important part of the universe. And the old house had yawning caves in the closets, and untold mysteries in that deep cellar and up in that beckoning yet forbidding attic. Why, that house couldn’t have been as small as now it seems.
I remember these things, and they were real, and and they are real now where I keep them in remembrance.
But we can’t go back.
I’m going to quote an atheist quoting a man of no obvious religious conviction to make a religious point. In fact, it may be *the* religious point. (more…)
And somewhere along the line, what seems to slip away is time–the time to have time for losing yourself in such things as baseball seasons played out with dice rolls.
Perhaps Mormons can appreciate this Hanson essay in a way few others can.
Dan Petersen writes an impromptu essay on the impermanence of good things and the desire that the passing moment would stay. Recommended.
The Light of Other Days–masterpiece SF.
Read this article by apologist extraordinaire Dan Petersen. (more…)
A touching essay on how the dying talk about God.
And an unflatterintg look at Harvard divinity professors.
Today is the 92nd anniversary of the end of the end of Western civilization and of the flower of her youth. May the King of Justice render to those men honor for their courage, recompense for their pain and despair, and forgiveness for their many faults.
Integrity is the same virtue in time as love is in space. Covenants and stewardship are the union of those two faces of the virtue.
Lehi had a revelatory dream, Nephi interpreted it by revelation, and their experience teaches us important truths about revelation. (more…)