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The Sovereignty of God

My father-in-law gifted a copy of Arthur W. Pink's book to myself and each of his sons and sons-in-law this past Christmas (seven copies in all, I think). I'll probably have more than one post come from reading it. I've only scratched the surface,

The Iliad & Odyssey of Homer

I need to read these books again. They're so good although trying to keep track of the names can be brutal. If you're insane, apparently you can read the scanned pages for free online in a web browser – if you're in to that sort

The Call Into the Wild: The Story of a Retarded Dog

I plowed through The Call of the Wild [1] this evening (while waiting for 10.6.5 to download at Starbucks) - a story of a beast both spirited and ferocious (not to be mistaken with Into the Wild, the story of a retarded boy) - and I found that

The Fountainhead

I haven't finished it yet; page 377 of 694. It's crazy though. Amazing. I need for Toohey to be marginalized; Keating to be shamed; Katie to become a person; Dominique to be committed and Roark to never change.

His Spirit Fled Into the Gloom Below

So, I was looking at my referrer logs, and found that someone searched for his spirit fled into the gloom below and that person found my previous post on The Aeneid. I didn't have anything very scholarly to say, and I used the word "dude" -

The Nine^H^H^H^HTwelve Caesars

It seemed like such a good book ... and it was ... all the way up to the last sentence of #7 of Domitian. How can I overlook such an egregious error? My friends, I have wasted a day. Time to start on Dante.

The gloom below

Beautiful: He sank his blade in fury in Turnus' chest. Then all the body slackened in death's chill, And with a groan for that indignity His spirit fled into the gloom below. That dude, Turnus, had it coming for at least 150 pages. Trojan/Roman Aeneas: the

There like a god he sits and takes his wine

I purchased The Odyssey late Friday night, and finished it late Monday night. I know now that I fully lack the ability to temper my reading when important work remains to be done; especially when, for like two hundred pages, you think that you're just on the verge

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