tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258987269737001562024-03-05T05:14:01.763-08:00Whimsical HeroismHannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409160982752615927noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25898726973700156.post-27426360063152463482012-11-29T10:41:00.000-08:002012-11-29T10:42:46.182-08:00To go with that video...<br />
"The most powerful and magical language is music. The reason for this is that music is the original language. Music is the language of creation. In The Silmarillion (as in Lewis's creation story in The Magician's Nephew), God and His angels sing the world into being: 'In the beginning, Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Iluvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him. In this Music the World was begun.'<br />
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It is not that the music was in the world but that the world was in the music. This is 'the music of the spheres', in which everything is, the 'Song of Songs' that includes all songs. All matter, space, time, and history are in this primal language.<br />
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Plato knew the power of music. In the Republic it is the first step in education in the good society and the first step in corruption in the bad one. Nothing is more powerful to the good society, to education, to human happiness in this world.<br />
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Music is not ornamented poetry, and poetry is not ornamented prose. Poetry is fallen music, and prose is fallen poetry. Prose is not the original language; it is poetry made practical. Even poetry is not the original language; it is music made speakable, it is the words of music separated from their music. In the beginning was music."<br />
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I'm not especially musical, but one doesn't have to be in order to appreciate this! The book was really good too. =)<br />
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~HHannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409160982752615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25898726973700156.post-62421625684738771212012-11-26T12:56:00.000-08:002012-11-26T12:56:14.476-08:00Pure Awesomeness.I can't tell you how much I love this music!<br />
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<i>Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, </i></div>
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<i>Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying. dying, dying.</i></div>
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<i>O, hark, O, hear! how thin and clear,</i></div>
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<i>O, sweet and far from cliff and scar</i></div>
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<i>The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!</i></div>
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<i>Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying,</i></div>
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xo</div>
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Hannah</div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409160982752615927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25898726973700156.post-29931252722469769252012-11-06T16:19:00.003-08:002012-11-06T16:19:33.131-08:00"Fairy tales are more than true"<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I believe it! = ) They are true if you can see beyond right now to the end of all things, when the dragon is beaten by a Prince on a White Horse!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. (Revelations 19: 11-12)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's completely ridiculous and unbelievable....but that's our own fault. Many things in this world make it hard to see the Truth, either because they absorb all our attention, or because they're so awful you don't notice the beautiful things. At this point we're still in the midst of the battle. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">“...I know that good is coming to me - that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition, could be assumed by the best good.”</span></i><br />
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<i>~ Albert Einstein</i><br />
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409160982752615927noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25898726973700156.post-74850842053568061222012-10-31T07:35:00.000-07:002012-10-31T07:35:05.688-07:00One book<span style="font-family: inherit;">If I could recommend only one book for you to read....well, it would have to be <i>Orthodoxy, </i>by Chesterton. It's deep, but not difficult read; thoughtful, and yet I would laugh out loud reading it. Here's proof that it's so wonderful - but I have so many quotes! I'll choose the shortest and let you discover the rest for yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“If a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; </span>he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. <span style="font-family: inherit;">” </span><br />
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“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">See what I mean?! Which is your favorite? There's one more I really like, but I'll save it for a rainy day.</span></div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409160982752615927noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25898726973700156.post-88981877677835208722012-10-28T16:34:00.007-07:002012-10-29T06:33:21.260-07:00"The more things change the more they stay the same."<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The quote up in the header is a snippet from this by Ms. Sayers:</span><br />
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“When I was a little child, bishops expressed doubts about the Resurrection, and were called courageous. When I was a girl, G. K. Chesterton professed belief in the Resurrection, and was called whimsical. When I was at college, thoughtful people expressed belief in the Resurrection ‘in a spiritual sense,’ and were called advanced. Today, anyone who expresses faith in the Risen Christ is liable to be abused in no uncertain terms as a mountebank, a reactionary, a tool of the Inquisition, a spiritual snob, an intellectual bully, an escapist, an obstructionist, a psychopathic introvert, an insensitive extrovert, and an enemy of society. The more things change the more they stay the same.” </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And here's another quote by Chesterton that is the same sort of idea. I think it's wonderful. :) How 'bout you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"If all things are always the same, it is because they are always heroic. If all things are always the same, it is because they are always new. To each man one soul only is given; to each soul only is given a little power--the power at some moments to outgrow and swallow up the stars. If age after age that power comes upon men, whatever gives it to them is great. Whatever makes men feel old is mean--an empire or a skin-flint shop. Whatever makes men feel young is great--a great war or a love-story. And in the darkest of the books of God there is written a truth that is also a riddle. It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young. There is no sceptic who does not feel that many have doubted before. There is no rich and fickle man who does not feel that all his novelties are ancient. There is no worshipper of change who does not feel upon his neck the vast weight of the weariness of the universe. But we who do the old things are fed by nature with a perpetual infancy. No man who is in love thinks that any one has been in love before. No woman who has a child thinks that there have been such things as children. No people that fight for their own city are haunted with the burden of the broken empires. Yes, O dark voice, the world is always the same, for it is always unexpected."</span></div>
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Perhaps that was a bit long... But I won't apologize, for it's good stuff! ;)<br />
Happy Sunday!<br />
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409160982752615927noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25898726973700156.post-68391656021565730802012-10-27T12:30:00.003-07:002012-10-27T12:43:10.797-07:00A Beginning...<span style="font-family: inherit;">This blog has been around for quite a while now, and I haven't written anything; perhaps it's time for that to change!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will post thoughts on books read, movies watched, and frequent quotes - as an avid reader of good books those aren't too hard to find - and other </span>miscellanies.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> But I'm still figuring out how to make best use of this space on the internet. =)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The world is charged with the grandeur of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And for all this, nature is never spent;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And though the last lights off the black West went</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —</span></div>
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