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Follow-up to follow-up to follow-up to previous day’s post
From LINGVA LATINA PER SE ILLVSTRATA – PARS I: FAMILIA ROMANA, by Hans H. Ørberg.…
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Illiberal Catholics revisited
Back a bit ago, Quin exchanged his transit authority for another sort of moving target. After some digging around, I found that Zmirak’s original piece was followed up by another more recent. Then I...
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I Sing the [Theology of the] Body Electric [Extended]
Attention, Korrektiv Summer Reading Klub! Friend of Korrektiv IC done went and wrote a book! Signed copies here. Unsigned copies (plus excerpt) here. Amazonian copies here. Rally, Korrektiv, rally!...
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Art Is a Joke
The Goldfinch. Carel Fabritius, 1654. ‘[The Goldfinch] can strike the eye […] from afar [as a true-to-life image of a bird]. [But] Fabritius, he’s making a pun on the genre […] a masterly riposte to...
View ArticleInsert Trite but Incisive Point about Whupping the Yankees
Flannery O'Connor and Shelby Foote just got name-checked on the Mets broadcast. — Michael B Dougherty (@michaelbd) May 14, 2014
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Broken Bow, Oklahoma*
Prologue: Red River The ríver bóy síngs in his síngulár wáy, and síngs sóngs To hímself of tólling bélls on ríver cúrrents. Each tóngue intónes, coúnts off the lógs that dríft dówn where stónes plásh...
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A Catholic call to liberate America from liberalism’s false ‘Liberty’*
“Liberty, the God that Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, From Locke to Obama” is a big book with a big title and even bigger ideas. Written by Christopher...
View Article‘A Darwin and a Catholic?’
“That I freely chose to be a Catholic after much thought and analysis, and wasn’t brainwashed into it, baffle my friends and family alike,” she writes. “I overheard one comment: ‘But she seemed like...
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Gas chambers in the Althouse
In which the esteemed law prof and perspicacious culture critic ponders an interesting O’Connor-Percy connection.
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A profile on the face of quirkily hyper-sexualized, unconnectedly earlobed...
Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., and was raised, as her author blurb states, in “all the worst cities of the Midwest.” What it does not say is that her father is a married Catholic priest,...
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The many selves of Krista – or, things to discuss with ourselves over drinks...
I thought this an interesting read, worth some discussion, especially since Walker Percy haunts the margins of the piece but never quite makes an appearance: The Romantic conception of self-knowledge...
View ArticleRIP OED
http://booksandpublishing.com/the-latest-news/rip-for-oed-as-worlds-finest-dictionary-goes-out-of-print Webb has a set. Scholars will be knocking at his door when the (other) Web unravels.
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America? Is that really YOU?
Don’t look now, but I think something afoot over at (one of if not) the oldest Catholic weekly in the US. Suddenly, it’s all, “Hey, kids, this is not your Father Kev Kevin’s America!” It reminds me...
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Ficciones
WH Pyne’s The History of the Royal Residences, plate 55: ‘The King’s Library, Buckingham House’ The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred...
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from ‘Mystic, Comic, Everything’— Chapter 1 of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: Her...
We are still at the dawn of the third great crisis of our civilization: it is no longer merely man confronted with his weakness (with the Greeks); no longer merely man confronted with his guilt (with...
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Father Loisy’s Still Life with Book and Pears
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril. – Alfred Loisy The morning sun is threading through the haze That hangs above my head....
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Another find from the files of Paucity Limits
Then there’s this, from someone who makes Mr. Stillman seem positively diarrhetic…
View Article‘the kitten games of syntax and rhetoric’
He [i.e., Lactantius] delighted in writing, in the joinery and embellishment of his sentences*, in the consciousness of high rare virtue when every word had been used in its purest and most precise...
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Hard Questions
In the comments to the previous post, Duffer asks some hard questions of writers and maybe a few readers of Korrektiv. Can we please get over Walker Percy? How many Walker Percy conferences must one...
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