One day, I hope I will be able to write like this:
"The long miseries and vanquished heroics of Troy inspired the world for millennia, though there is not much in the tale to offer comfort except the spectacle of futility on an epic scale. I am not sure we have at the moment any notion of comfort in that sense, of feeling burdens which come with being human in the world lifted by compassionate imagination. Our always greater eagerness to describe ourselves as sufferers makes us always less willing to identify with suffering as a fact of human life...This being human -- people have loved it through plague and famine and siege. And Dante, who knew the world about suffering, had a place in hell for people who were grave when they might have rejoiced." > Marilynne Robinson, "Facing Reality"
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Isn't the book incredible? Are you planning to import it into your paper?
You've read it?! Um, when did we become the same person? It's creepy.
But, yes, it's amazing. We should discuss soon. I am hoping to somehow import it into my paper, but I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet.
Yeah, I read it last spring. I even blogged about it. I am now angling for a way to study Jesuit political philosophy as a result. You aren't planning to do that too, are you?
Oh, I missed that. Why didn't you tell me to read it sooner?!
No, Jesuit political philosophy is not on my to-do list. Though considering where I go to school, it probably should be.
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