How to Outlive God |
Contents
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The Meaning of Christs Death | 63 |
The Western | 74 |
Summa | 184 |
Progress | 197 |
God | 207 |
Hospitality | 238 |
VII | 247 |
Nothing About | 255 |
VIII | 262 |
Ghost Dance | 271 |
Tinkerneoteny | 77 |
Death | 84 |
Truth is the Opposite | 89 |
A Bull Session in Three Acts and | 93 |
My Life | 277 |
Good | 284 |
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Abstract Adam and Eve adult ambition American athletes audience beauty become Beowulf bull celebrate chemical child Christ Christ died Christian claim comfort communion conflict create culture death domestic droit de seigneur entertainment equality Eucharist feel fiction Garden of Eden gender glamour guest hero hero-cult hierarchy holy hospitality host human ideal imagine immortality incarnate individual intellectual intoxication language leaders leisure literary live Mad magazine marital marriage married married couple Martin Buber mature mid-life modern myths neoteny nuclear family Oedipal outlived parents planet pleasure political priests primogeniture professional reading reality realize rebellion recreational religion ritual romance sacrifice sanctuary schadenfreude sexual shaman share sit-com skill species spiritual sport spouse story survive symbolic teacher tetrahedron thirties Tinker tradition triumph ceremony truth verbal vicarious violence virgin wealth western words writers Yorker young youthful
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Page 112 - She dwells with Beauty — Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips...
Page 82 - A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair, and very fair ; Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little maid ! How many...
Page 115 - MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
Page 25 - A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean and Reverent".
Page 53 - I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action, and relieved some by others from time to time ; but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.
Page 279 - Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace, Your hands swift to welcome, your arms to embrace, Be there at our homing, and give us, we pray, Your love in our hearts, Lord, at the eve of the day.
Page 167 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.