The past, now.
- Conversion
The night of my baptism I was annoyed by screaming of children, the shuffling of the elect in their pews. Throughout my catechumenate year, I had been nurtured in the community of gracious liturgical snobs at Corpus Christi. On top of my weekly RCIA classes with the pastor, I also learned to read Latin and [...]
- Flannery O’Connor
I think that the Church is the only thing that is going to make the terrible world we are coming to endurable; the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have [...]
- Cats and ants
What I see, when I stop to look, is so immense that it seems impossible to talk about. And yet, the entire vastness is reflected, in full, in every corner. Every moment contains all of history. The most mundane image — coming home on a hot day, I see the cat curled up and sleeping [...]
- Watchmen
(From my essay “Remembering the future: Time and memory in the Mars chapters of Watchmen,” 10 pages.)
Unlike dismantling weapons with one’s mind, which only he is able to do, Jon (Dr. Manhattan) seems to think that even ordinary humans are quite capable of perceiving time in the way he does (even, perhaps, of seeing the [...]
