MDDM 35 Christ and History

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on 22/2/02 6:28 AM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> And there have been similar bouts of extreme anti-monarchist and
> anti-English
>> sentiment as well, particularly now that we're in America.
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> Yes, and where there are such sentiments there is usually violence.
> 
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> The young Pietist staring at RC's clerical collar, says, are you one of
> these? The English Church, net?
> 

Yes, you're right, we should get into the Reverend's story, although there's
an awful lot in that opening debate we haven't touched on, Aesop, the
"Novel", Johnson, Walpole, Shakespeare's history plays, _Hamlet_, 'Brae's
flirtatiousness .... It's an important section I think.

Wicks's apostrophe to himself at 356.7 is another rhetorical move, and he
tries to encompass "all Faiths, true and delusional" within his own belief
system. The distinction between "true" and "delusional" is telling, and
somewhat presumptuous, but he again totally discounts atheism and
agnosticism.

                    The Wind

    What way does the Wind come? What way does he go?
    He rides over the water, and over the snow,
    Through wood, and through vale; and, o'er rocky height
    Which the goat cannot climb, taking his sound flight.
    He tosses about in every bare tree,
    As, if you look up, you plainly may see;
    But how he will come, and whither he goes,
    There's never a scholar in England knows.

                            Dorothy Wordsworth

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