We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
~ Brown soulless Characters never get quotes like this one …
And this on Henry Green’s much-admired (by Welty, by Updike) and much-demeaned prose:
“He went for the rare image, the visual mannered style which caught the sensation of being intensely alive from minute to minute. But at heart he was a listener: he doted -- it is his word -- on ordinary, helpless, moody human talk, the vernacular of factory workers whose talk he especially loved—the blokey talk of offices and parties, the rattling brittle chatter of the sophisticated. But he was not a tape-recorder. He saw that the human rigmarole is a mosaic of repetitions and that it is a sort of unconscious poetry or a touching attempt to grope our way towards intimacy and yet also to self-protection.
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Some of us feel a peculiar kinship with trees; in my case, oaks, with their strength and vulnerability. A character in Walter de la Mare’s novel The Return (1910; rev. 1945) says:
“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until . . .”
Nature never stops creating eclectic images …
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HMMMM: The Catholic Origins of Thanksgiving.
What most people believe is a variation on what I was taught in public school in the 1960s. The Pilgrims came to Plymouth on a ship called the Mayflower. They were the first English settlers in America. They came for religious freedom. And they had a big feast with Indians, and that was the first Thanksgiving. That about sums it up. And that is what Chesterton calls “The Myth of the Mayflower.”
First of all, they were not known as “pilgrims” till about 200 years afterwards. They were Puritans, a radical Anglican “low church” sect that loathed the “high church” Anglicans that happened to include the King of England. In fact, about 30 years after the Puritans arrived in America, some of their fellow Puritans back in England arranged for King Charles I to have his head chopped off.
Secondly, there were at least nine other British settlements before the Plymouth colony. In fact, one of them was at Plymouth. All but one of them failed, including the first settlement at Plymouth. The Puritans who came to Plymouth in 1620 almost didn’t survive. Half the settlers died the first winter. They were saved by a Native American named Squanto, who taught them how to hunt and fish and grow corn.
But here’s what is really interesting: Squanto was a Roman Catholic.
In 1614, he had been captured by an English party led by Captain John Smith (of Pocahontas fame) and taken on a ship to Spain where he was to be sold as a slave. He was rescued by some Dominican friars who instructed him in the Catholic faith. He told them he wanted to return to his people in America. They helped him get to England, where he met John Slaney, who taught him English and arranged for him to get to Newfoundland. Squanto served as an interpreter between the English and the Indians and crossed the Atlantic six times. He was never able to return to his own tribe, because they had been wiped out in a plague.
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