S.O.C. Post
Bill Luse continues his "stream o' consciousness" travelin' man1 series. I like his stream o' conscious style2 though I can't seem to generate enough of a stream to get a lengthy post like that going. (Er, that didn't sound quite like I anticipated. We'll edit that out.)
I thought I'd give it the ol' college try3 in this post although you'll find no borrowed text messages from son, wife or anyone else. "U bitch4," sayeth one of Bill's daughters, and I think we can add the word "bitch" to that list of words that only those who are within the group can say to each other. I need not mention the others. So that means I guess I can call Bill or Steven "honkey"5.
Well, is the quality of this stream o' consciousness everything you expected? I thought so6.
The weekend passed with remarkable alacrity. She was just 48 hours. Taps was played at 10pm on Sunday and internment is scheduled at midnight. Gosh, sorry to sound so morbid but I just watched 60 Minutes'7 long goodbye to Mike Wallace. It felt more like a eulogy than a television show though I did like the Johnny Carson clip.
What else...hmm...how does Bill segue? None of these awkward, "well...what else"'s I'm guessing. Well, what else--doh! Oh, our Byzantine priest mentioned how fast the Easter season goes compared to Lent. I agree. If Easter goes by so much faster than Lent, imagine how much faster our eternal Easter will seem compared to our current Easter season. Although I guess we'll be outside of time so I'm not sure that's applicable. (Keep hope alive! The quality of this stream o' consciousness post is risin'!)
Also came across a funny line in Marsden's biography of Jonathon Edwards today. Trying to dissaude a young man from marrying a Christian young woman with a very difficult temperament, the father counsels: "Martha is a good girl...but the grace of God will dwell where you or I cannot!"
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1 - Also see Terrence Berres'(oy!- see last footnote) traveling series.
2 - Very Lilek-ian I thought.
3 - Speaking of college, my brother-in-law is starting a "Cans for College" project in which he painstakingly collects the pop cans of various & sundry family members. He generally gets maybe 200 cans a month and makes maybe $10. We dub this informally as the "Cans for a Collegiate Textbook" enterprise, or, alternatively, "Cans for A College Meal". This is exactly the sort of inspiring Don Quixotian type thing that sends shivers of delight up my spine. Also speaking of college, do check out Meredith's "Basia Me" pictures.
4 - Can you say that on a Catholic blog?
5 - Honky?
6 - As you can see, I'm a shameless borrower. I not only borrowed Bill Luse's stream o' conscious style but you can see I've also borrowed David Foster Wallace's penchant for footnoting. He actually footnotes his fiction1.
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1 - but rarely footnotes footnotes
7 - I really dislike these possessive plural situations. You generally have three choices and I roll the dice. For example, if I want to say "60 Minutes's long goodbye" I can say 60 Minutes', 60 Minuteses, or 60 Minutes's. Now the middle one fails the smell test, although I have seen nouns that add an es as a plural. The other two choices are viable, so at this point you pick one and hope. Or, alternatively you could alter the sentence in order to avoid the problem: "60 Minutes had a long goodbye to Mike Wallace...".
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