Re: AtD Cyprian’s religiosity I mean dig this sentence

[rich]

I was always found of the end credits piece for the TV series Tinker Tailor

rich

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy end credits (Nunc Dimittis by Geoffrey Burgon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLqJEIq6A8



On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:11 AM Raphael Saltwood <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com>
wrote:

> “Cyprian, while rejecting his family’s High Church faith, strangely had
> begun - especially when the Mags [Magnificats] and Nuncs [Nunc Dimittis]
> and Matins responsories could be heard from services at Trinity or King’s -
> to glimpse that, precisely because of its impossibilities, the disarray of
> self-important careerists and hierarchy-obsessed functionaries, the yawning
> and fidgeting town-lad choristers and narcotic sermonizing, it was possible
> to hope, not so much despite as paradoxically because of this very snarled
> web of human flaws, for the emergence of the incommensurable mystery, the
> dense, unknowable Christ, bearing the secret of how once on a hilltop that
> was not Zion, he had conquered death.”
>
> Echoing and embellishing a very famous quotation about Christian faith: “I
> believe because it is absurd.”
>
> https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:683925
>
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