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... you recall the old saw --if you
were stuck away on a desert island for a few dozen years and you could
only take three books with you which books would you take? It's a game
we've all played at one time or another -- in Philosophy 101, Theology,
Intro to ... or, perhaps, Beginner's English Lit ... .
On par with 'if you could sit down to dinner with any three (or two (or
one person)) people ... whom would you choose?' Or if you knew you
had only six months (or three (or one) month(s)) to live ... would you
be doing what you're doing, now? Legend has it a teacher asked
this, once, of Aragorn (funny ... the things you remember) who, I was
told, got up ... walked from the classroom, left college, and became an
auto mechanic ... got a low number in the draft and ended up in Germany
driving a tank ... . I heard that walking along Livingston Road, once
upon a time . ... I'd definitely invite Judas to tea and Jack the
Ripper ... .
Books? Richard Brautigan -- In Watermelon Sugar and Hemann Hesse's Siddhartha (Fr. Schmidt introduced me to that little volume while we were discussing my Spiritual Direction) ... that's two of each. Three? |
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Frodo:
As for books on an
island--Hermann Hesse's Magister
Ludi, Perhaps Robert
Pirsig's Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Leaves
of Grass by Walt
Whitman.
As for dinner
guests--Thomas Merton (my dissertation subject), Einstein, Walt Whitman (of
course) but these are names off the cuff.
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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ |
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| Gene Gryniewicz
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