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| Our Lady Of The Oratory |
Saturday January 01, 2022
He will now lay LO
because there is no reason
for him to remain.
He must retreat and retrieve.
Only then can he receive.
Sunday January 02, 2022
Atheism is
what you get when you forget
to let being be.
Their pure minds must be stirred up
by way of this remembrance.
Monday January 03, 2022
Reading Heidegger
in English translation is
a form of penance
for the academic sins
of his analytic youth.
Tuesday January 04, 2022
Anonymity
is the theological
key to unity:
from the atheists to the
ecclesial avant-garde.
Wednesday January 05, 2022
The transcendental
liberty he silently
experiences
is worth all of the trial
and effort of recent years.
Thursday January 06, 2022
He stays far away
from that nasty little bit
of bitter business.
Better to let them be since
most turn sour in the end.
Friday January 07, 2022
The "No Longer I"
modus operandi is
modus operandi is
entrenched within the
docta ignorantia:
the ignorance of the wise.
Saturday January 08, 2022
His interest in pins
and needles needs to be pinned
down for the count: ten,
nine, eight, seven, six, five, four,
three, two, and one for the win.
Sunday January 09, 2022
The utility
of Rahner's dogma of the
Trinity (his "Rule")
is not an endorsement of
pragmatic philosophy.
Monday January 10, 2022
Settling into
questionability is
what's required now
that he's disappeared from the
view of the remaining few.
Tuesday January 11, 2022
The slow transition
from Moby Dick to Moby's
ambient diction
is a commentary on
his musical aesthetic.
Wednesday January 12, 2022
It’s best for him to
bite the digital bullet
and remain content
with the content that remains
on some physical server.
Thursday January 13, 2022
Down from three to one?
After all is said and done,
it is quality,
and not quantity, that is
the most meaningful measure.
Friday January 14, 2022
Now he can focus
on the sense of the cadence,
not just on its drone.
Then again, reciting it
is transcendental enough.
Saturday January 15, 2022
He has listened through
the Herbert von Karajan
thirty-eight CD
Symphony Edition on
Deutsche Grammophon's label.
Sunday January 16, 2022
He knows that it is
completely reasonable,
only if he keeps
doing the daily routine.
Time is persuasion enough.
Monday January 17, 2022
He usually draws
a blank at least once a month,
sometimes even twice.
The words normally arrive
in very quick succession.
Tuesday January 18, 2022
He is comforted
by the fact that his reader
duly reminds him
to keep up with the practice
of making Japanese verse.
Wednesday January 19, 2022
He is settling
into his yearly routine.
He said to his son
that he is a hermit, and
his son readily agreed.
Thursday January 20, 2022
It’s the most ancient
secret society we
have for those worthy
enough to know that they don’t
deserve to become members.
Friday January 21, 2022
They literally
picked up from where it was left
off back in the day
when he was working through the
hermeneutic of rupture.
Saturday January 22, 2022
Are they doing him
a favor by deciding
to remain aloof?
The proof is in the pudding.
Only time will show and tell.
Sunday January 23, 2022
The last great project:
Insight into Lonergan.
It is not without
note that it is the third book
within the Collected Works.
Monday January 24, 2022
He gently recalled
a date he once had in the
Communist’s Daughter
so many years ago, now.
It was so unexpected.
Tuesday January 25, 2022
Given the era
we live within, his work is
required reading.
First order discourse simply
cannot be the only source.
Wednesday January 26, 2022
This morning he read:
"Salute no one on the road."
This has less to do
with being anti-social,
and more to do with intent.
Thursday January 27, 2022
Another volume
was delivered to his door.
was delivered to his door.
That makes four so far,
with twenty-two more to go
before he becomes snow white.
Friday January 28, 2022
Levit's recording
of Ludwig van Beethoven's
complete piano
sonatas is the next best
version to Gould's rendition.
Saturday January 29, 2022
He welcomed his first
official welcoming to
the society,
whose secret is kept among
men of virtue and valor.
Sunday January 30, 2022
His name was not called.
He was present nonetheless.
He was present nonetheless.
Then he realized
that his presence in that place
was the end of his calling.
Monday January 31, 2022
He will gladly step
aside knowing that his time
is almost over.
He lived forwards, and is now
understanding life backwards.
