Patrimony

We deny to claim "any Superiority to ourself
to defyne, decyde, or determyn any Article or Poynt
of the Christian Fayth and Relligion,
or to chang any Ancient Ceremony of the Church
from the Forme before received and observed
by the Catholick and Apostolick Church."

Norman Simplicity

Norman Simplicity
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Traversing the fantasy

As others in this world may have noticed, to be an American means to have unreasonable expectations and implausible goals, as these are woven inextricably into our national DNA. Here's a good one:

... making love in a confessional with a prostitute dressed in a prelate’s liturgical robes reciting Baudelaire while ten electronic organs reproduce The Well-Tempered Clavier, played by Scriabin.

The great Umberto Eco is dead.

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