“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero, Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo. LET us go then, you and I, When the evening is …
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by T.S. Eliot Read More »
Looking a Long Way Off I’m only a little way into Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, but I couldn’t help but be impressed by his Mrs. Jellyby. The reader gets a first impression of her from the “biography” given by Mr. Kenge. “Mrs. Jellyby,” he says, “is a lady of very remarkable strength of character who devotes herself entirely …
Telescopic Philanthropy Covers a Multitude of Sins Read More »
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung cites this passage from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables to close her book, Vainglory. She says, “Glory is a gift that is shared when we are transparent to God, as in L’Engle’s poem, and also when we are transparent to each other,” and then asks, “Do we have eyes to see goodness in ourselves and in …
