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John Wm. Houghton
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Two live meetings, a Zoom call, and a public lecture. Time for this older model introvert to be plugged back into the charger.
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Episcopal priest; school & seminary chaplain; Tolkien, St. Bede.
The Thaumaturge of Annandale series: www.amazon.com/dp/B087RS699Q .
I-Númenóreo Taracáno Lisseryar, Arandil: Nai rato entuluva i-Aran! www.reunitedkingdoms.net
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John Wm. Houghton
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Two live meetings, a Zoom call, and a public lecture. Time for this older model introvert to be plugged back into the charger.
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Sarah Posner
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Some editorial boards understand what’s really at stake. READ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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L O L G O P
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I'm a single-issue voter. My single issue is that I'd like to continue voting.
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Matthew J. M. Coomber
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John Wm. Houghton
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As in Rumplestiltskin, the blond who knows the real word for “bear” has power over them.
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Benjamin Dreyer
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All’s I know is: The next president has to be a Democrat, and the rest is details and paperwork. And I don’t care who it is at this point.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Things I am glad I, the Youth Coordinator, only had to say once to Gussie, the Altar Guild head who was also the former Dean’s widow: “I’m quite sorry, ma’am, but the Bishop really *does* want to use the Cathedral on the eve of Quinquagesima.”
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John Wm. Houghton
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Wouldn't be Thanksgiving without him.
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John Wm. Houghton
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A favorite Jack Aubrey joke!
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John Wm. Houghton
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In my (thankfully limited) experience, people who want to drink from the skulls of their enemies tend to miss out that you have to turn them upside down to do so.
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John Wm. Houghton
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You could make a movie about that. Elevator pitch: One people! One nation! One leader!
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John Wm. Houghton
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I’ve never been happier with a last minute curriculum change than the time when my colleague Andrea came into my classroom in August and said, “I saw an amazing new Stoppard play this summer. There’s this tortoise. . .”
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John Wm. Houghton
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I wonder if that’s a Czech calque of [in] re Makropoulos.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Irregular verbs are strong! Regular verbs are weak.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Sadly, few of my email correspondents allow for the delay inherent in getting everything translated into Gothic and written out with silver ink on purple vellum.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Indeed. “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
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Benjamin Dreyer
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And then what happened?
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John Wm. Houghton
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Nai rato entuluva i-Aran! But I don’t have a monkey’s paw.
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John Wm. Houghton
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I remember as a new chaplain intern (we started in June) sitting w/ a doc on his first day whose first patient (an overnight transfer in to our last resort hospital) had died in our care before the young guy had even had a chance to see him. He was surprisingly good with the family.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Avenge Pertinax!
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John Wm. Houghton
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I think that people (other than hopeless romantics) who want to live in a monarchy typically hold a reverse-Kantian position, assuming they will always be the most-privileged person in any transaction: which is not a _bad_ assumption if you have life tenure on the Supreme Court of the United States.
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John Wm. Houghton
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And conversely everyone with Secret Service protection is ipso facto surrounded by people who might be ordered to assassinate them at any moment. The Protection Detail of Damocles, so to speak.
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John Wm. Houghton
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I’ve often had that feeling at the gate for ORD to KZO flights!
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John Wm. Houghton
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To get in, I think mostly. Emerson is (or was, in ancient times) for passing exams, as he’s just outside a largish lecture hall.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Nor, indeed, Emerson’s nose! Though I suppose the former gets some number of tourists, the latter mostly just actual students.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Doesn't JRRT have some bronze competition from Dr. Johnson and James Smithson (iirc)? Neither of those is a _large_ fandom, of course, but still, they might dilute the effect. (I am assuming Paddington Bear has no rivals.)
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John Wm. Houghton
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His impressively bearded portrait used to (& perhaps still does) welcome one to the Cathedral office building in St. Louis.
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John Wm. Houghton
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I’m still upset that Peter Jackson left out Tim Benzedrine.
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Benjamin Dreyer
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But not the other guy...?
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David M. Perry
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Hey if y'all are on Facebook, I wrote a letter to Tractor Supply company on the occasion of them going full on bigotry and anti-climate as corporate policy, and I'd love you to share it.
www.facebook.com/lollardfish/...
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John Wm. Houghton
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Yes, I thought this did a great job of setting out various things I had noticed and lots I had not. I do wish he could spell Middle-earth: there's not much Jane Austen criticism about Mr. *D'Arcy.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Those EYE kids were bound to grow up eventually.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Balrog wings, followed closely by Tom Bombadil.
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John Wm. Houghton
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A somewhat futuristic and passive distinction, but certainly one to be observed. I once had a student whose parents had named her Lavanda.
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John Wm. Houghton
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I've seen two bishops comment about it over on FB already today!
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John Wm. Houghton
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1649, I think you meant to say.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Conversely, I have come to realize that a white dog (even one more loyal than Achates) is not on the pragmatic level a good choice for the household of a clergyman.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Some of us are old enough to still call them mangoes ( which raises other issues, admittedly).
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John Wm. Houghton
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Heard the first of the darned things this evening, whilst walking the poor dog.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Morale in a fractious English dept. of which I was once a part improved enormously once we began having curriculum meetings around the bagel-and-trimmings-encumbered dining room table of one our senior colleagues.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Apparently recent studies have indicated that cooling a Houston actually consumes less energy than heating a Minneapolis, if that’s any comfort.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Though we shouldn’t ignore the UK’s spectacular contribution in Lord Gordon-Gordon. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Go...
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John Wm. Houghton
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But not people named after them, generally speaking.
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John Wm. Houghton
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I used to drive through here twice a year, on my way between home in Indiana and work at a boarding school in Pennsylvania. Hard, though, to just drive through, even after a decade of it. (Photo taken on my post-retirement trip home.)
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John Wm. Houghton
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I think one might even say (particularly if one were Pseudo-Dionysius) that the Divine Simplicity is both pre- and trans-numerary.
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John Wm. Houghton
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I'm holding out for both the Shahada and "Buddham saranam gacchami," etc. Possibly with a daily reading from the Third Earl Russell.
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John Wm. Houghton
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With my friend Jeff Kenney (not on here), I've just completed an edition of a 1934 local history--one of those FDR alphabet projects, originally published in the local paper. Lots of explanations and, where we could, corrections.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0D78FJ2H9/
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John Wm. Houghton
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People at my old boarding school in Pottstown (about a 45 minute drive away) swore by it, and it was an ever-popular destination for student outings.
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John Wm. Houghton
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Depends on what we're comparing them to, I suppose: the absolute unit that lived under my neighbor's garage in PA would want us to note that, topping out at ~13 pounds, they're pretty much the largest squirrels a person is likely to meet. Even so, though, probably not going to be tossing a caber.
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John Wm. Houghton
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That’s Beda to a bunny-killing T, sadly.
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