I was wondering if you'd ever read Screwtape. And there's a lot more to The Great Divorce than meets the mind at first reading, especially if you've read The Divine Comedy upon which it is modeled (along with about six other books). In fact, one of my favorite literary sports is reading the favorite authors of my favorite authors.

If you want to really waste your time improve your mind, though, check out the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

(I need your current address, still.)

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Dante and his like still intimidate me, really, mostly because my literary bent and tastes right now tend towards the orthodox and systematic rather than the allegorical. I'm always afraid I'll miss out on some important symbolism, or be misled as to its meaning entirely simply because I still have to brush up on my history. I never thought that research would come so... so easily to me. If anyone had told me that I would one day be reading non-stop just for the sake of learning, I'd have laughed in their face.

I'll email you with my address as soon as I can. I'm wondering though if you're open again to receiving rather than giving all the freaking time.

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See, that's why I want to send you (or direct you towards) my personal favorite Dante translation. Dorothy L. Sayers' translation isn't Great Poetry (most of the time), but the explanatory notes and introductions she provides are written with dash and panache and don't require you to have a degree in anything. They're an education all by themselves.

And Dante is the most orthodox and systematic of allegorists, a devoted follower of Aquinas. His mythos is built upon a Rock, if you get my meaning.

We'll perhaps look at the whole issue of giving and receiving in another venue, hmm?

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Roger roger!

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Also, I don't know as you'd want to go through life called "Clive". C.S. Lewis didn't -- he named himself "Jack" before he was 10.

And all of those guys came from a time when men were known to each other by their last names. Tolkein was known to all his friends as "Tollers".

Welcome to my Trivia Dump!

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I once considered changing my name to Jonathan. Thank goodness that 8-year-old whim never came to anything. I like mine quite a lot now, really, especially after learning its etymology. A.D. Garcia still seems pretty cool though, like an ethnic science fiction character or something.

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Can I has rest of raccoon plz? :O

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awwwww

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