tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post1701448988770644220..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Has it really come to this?Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6728159032381151982023-03-06T15:21:52.170+00:002023-03-06T15:21:52.170+00:00Father,
I happened to find out in conversation wi...Father,<br /><br />I happened to find out in conversation with my niece and nephews that in their most prestigious public school, they have never been taught to diagram sentences. <br /><br />Oh, the agony! After lunch and just come in from recess, we spent an eon every day diagramming sentences, and then showing our work on the board.<br /><br />So the US public schools are not even teaching Arthur Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17112710829784836781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-75577747107447209592023-03-05T23:12:11.023+00:002023-03-05T23:12:11.023+00:00Several years ago i bought a book of the Brothers ...Several years ago i bought a book of the Brothers Grimms' fairy tales in the original German. Alas, in the foreword (which i should better have read in the shop before buying the book), it is written, that all references to jews and gypsies have been removed from the stories. Thus this is not at all an edition of Grimms' Fairytales, but a censored and mutilated version thereof. How sillyAlbertushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18236817196746609901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-49156158171991840882023-03-05T18:46:44.808+00:002023-03-05T18:46:44.808+00:00
Likewise in the tv situation comedy “ ‘til Death...<br /><br />Likewise in the tv situation comedy “ ‘til Death is do Part” , never to be shown as a repeat, the censorious wokeys never seem to notice that the racist bigot is always worsted.vetusta ecclesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09454059029260192711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-662914803915751322023-03-05T16:53:10.449+00:002023-03-05T16:53:10.449+00:00I think the chief book-burners themselves know per...I think the chief book-burners themselves know <b>perfectly well</b> that there is such a thing as fiction, in which the opinions expressed by various characters are not as such attributable to the author, and that there is such a thing as irony. Their aim is nothing other than to remove these (elegantly written/ conservative/ religious) works from circulation, and their method is to use all the william arthurshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447813388196156894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-87419035977329732652023-03-05T14:36:00.670+00:002023-03-05T14:36:00.670+00:00Of course, one of the fundamental principles of th...Of course, one of the fundamental principles of the mystery novel is that one's worldbuilding, and the presentation of clues through dialogue and action, are supposed to be subtle. Science fiction and fantasy picked up this worldbuilding technique from mystery.<br /><br />But nowadays, many authors in all these genres do not believe in subtlety, or have never heard of it. (Because a lot of Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29044164085702528922023-03-05T12:40:59.539+00:002023-03-05T12:40:59.539+00:00Dear Father. In America, of course, socialistic sc...Dear Father. In America, of course, socialistic scribblers have made the same sort of charges against the great Flannery O'Connor.<br /><br />These progressive progs are possessed of a virulent form of presentism.<br /><br />A fun experiment is to read what Flannery wrote and compare it to the "quality" of the writing of her critics.<br /><br />If one doesn't know this great Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-51403306964245756062023-03-05T11:06:03.305+00:002023-03-05T11:06:03.305+00:00Wonderful.Wonderful.Michael Leahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15044897013849386271noreply@blogger.com