Month: July 2010

• “Although You End Up Becoming Yourself…A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace”.

  Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. When maturity is defined by a highly individualistic culture, your very development progressively disconnects you from tradition or community. So for the modern artist, the more you find your own voice the more alone you are. Many writers never quite…

• Matthew 5:45: God avoids the appearance of design

  “…so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.   For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.” So God’s indiscriminate love makes it look like there is no moral actor behind natural law.

• Conversation: Liturgy as Form, Toward Ecstasy

  [Preliminary notes] To choose the random is the point of the post-modern, and is essence of the demonic.   Chosen un-relation is the world that Adam created when he hid his ass behind the bush, choosing a place un-related to God.   People cannot touch each other without structures, and un-relatedness is death. The mood…