"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart."
Commenting on Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, C.S. Lewis said the above.
It does. Aragorn, Frodo, Sam, Faramir, the two princeling hobbit in their return to the shire and how they have grown. The numerous times that hope seems lost and on the brink , some good news comes. The Lord of the Rings, breaks my heart. In a very happy way. If theatre and poetry and prose is to help us to train our emotions, then Tolkien is a supercoach. Drink of his riches.
Lewis spoke these words after reading The Two Towers.
Ankle Sprain - Ouch
Here is my ankle, 3 days after injuring it by twisting it in a hole at touch football. Ouch. The doctor suspects it is just ligament damage - perhaps out for 3 weeks. Hope it's not longer than that.
Anyway, it means that I miss my touch team's grand final this Thursday!
Heal foot, heal.
Not painful, and I can hobble around the house without crutches.
About me - Archived Sun 17th Aug 2008
Sometimes I like thinking 'bout the middle ages and chivalry and other times I think it's strange that George III thought it too opulent to have carpet in his bedroom. Eh? I know a man who laughs because the grass is green and the sky is blue, the water wet and the good God good. I long to be that man. Currently I am occasionally fixated by the works and lives of Chesterton, St Thomas Aquinas and Our Lady and trying a little harder to live the seven virtues, to wit, Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude and Justice. Still thinking that "Something ere the end may yet be done not unbecoming men that strove with gods... and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, one equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." --Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"
Cheap Simple Phone
Can you get a cheap phone? Pay as you go from the carphone warehouse £30 with £10 credit for the Sony Ericssson T250i. Not too much special functionality, but it looks great and it works.
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