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January 2012

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Nadal, though? He plays like he’s fighting giants. It’s not just the sneer, or the muscles, or the hair, or that forehand — you know, the one where he swoops the racket all the way around his head like he’s whipping the team pulling his chariot. It’s also that frantic tenacity that used to drive me so nuts. Federer seems devastated when he loses but he also seems to sense losses coming and accept them before they arrive. When Nadal falls behind, he turns the match into life and death. He gets mad. He hesitates less. He hits the ball harder. He doesn’t look sad or scared. He looks defiant, and he plays like he’s possessed.

As a result, he carries matches to a higher plane than they have any business reaching. Djokovic could and should have won the Australian final in four sets, but Nadal refused to surrender, played lethal tennis, and took Djokovic to a place he’d never been. Instead of notching a routine victory, Djokovic had to tap into the same well of inspiration that Nadal was already drawing from. You could say that all these guys have learned what it means to fight on the plains of Troy because Nadal does it in every match. And we see him do it, so we know what it means, too.

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—The epic warfare of the Rafael Nadal-Novak Djokovic Australian Open final - Grantland. I love sport, as the Brits call it, but I’m not sure that sport deserves a writer as good as Brian. (via ayjay)
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#Jacobs' comment is hilarious.
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#Teach me your ways!
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Vladimir Putin has laid out his plans to compile a canon of 100 Russian books “that every Russian school leaver will be required to read” in an attempt to preserve the “dominance of Russian culture”.

In an article running to more than 4,500 words in Russia’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper, the Russian prime minister writes that “in the 1920s, some leading universities in the United States advocated something referred to as the Western Canon, a canon of books regarded as the most important and influential in shaping Western culture”, adding that “each self-respecting student was required to read 100 books from a specially compiled list of the greatest books of the Western world”.

Putin, who is running for a third term as president in March, says that Russia has “always been described as a ‘reading nation’”, and proposes taking a survey of the country’s “most influential cultural figures” and compiling “a 100-book canon that every Russian school leaver will be required to read – that is, to read at home rather than study in class or memorise. And then they would be asked to write an essay on one of them in their final exams. Or at least let us give young Russians a chance to demonstrate their knowledge and world outlook in various student competitions.”

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—Vladimir Putin plans 100-book Russian canon all students must read | Books | guardian.co.uk (via ayjay)
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“Ritual and Ceremonial things move not God, but they exalt that Devotion, and they conserve that Order, which does move him.” —John Donne (via triadic)
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God's Grandeur, by Gerard Manley Hopkins

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.

  It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

  It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; 

 And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

 And for all this, nature is never spent; 

 There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went 

 Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs

—Because the Holy Ghost over the bent 

 World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Jan 20, 2012
Hurrahing in Harvest, by Gerard Manley Hopkins

SUMMER ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise

  Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour

  Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier

Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

 I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,

  Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour;

  And, éyes, heárt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a

Rapturous love’s greeting of realer, of rounder replies?

 And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder

  Majestic—as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet!

—These things, these things were here and but the beholder

  Wanting; which two when they once meet,

The heart rears wings bold and bolder

  And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet. 

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#Elephants were my favorite animal as a kid. #I have a collection of elephant statuettes. #Now I can't decide between elephants and tricertopses.
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“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.” —Sydney Smith, Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding (via triadic)
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My source for the Creed posts. → ccel.org
Jan 19, 2012
The Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,
and of all things visible and invisible.
  And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten
of  the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God
of  very  God;  begotten, not made, being of one  substance  with  the
Father, by whom all things were made.
  Who,  for us men for our salvation, came down from heaven,  and  was
incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and
was  crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered  and  was
buried;  and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures;
and  ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of  the  Father;
and  He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead;
whose kingdom shall have no end.
  And  I  believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of  Life;  who
proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the  Son
together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.
  And  I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge
one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection
of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Jan 19, 2012
The Apostle's Creed

1. I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
2.  And in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, our Lord:
3.  Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary:
4.  Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead and buried:  He
    descended into hell:
5.  The third day he rose again from the dead:
6.  He  ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand  of  God  the
    Father Almighty:
7.  From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead:
8.  I believe in the Holy Ghost:
9.  I believe a holy catholic church: the communion of saints:
10. The forgiveness of sins:
1l. The resurrection of the body:
12. And the life everlasting. Amen.
Jan 19, 2012
The Athanasian Creed

 Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith;

2. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

3. And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity;

4. Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance.

5. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit.

6. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is all one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.

7. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit.

8. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated.

9. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible.

10. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal.

11. And yet they are not three eternals but one eternal.

12. As also there are not three uncreated nor three incomprehensible, but one uncreated and one incomprehensible.

13. So likewise the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty.

14. And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty.

15. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God;

16. And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.

17. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Spirit Lord;

18. And yet they are not three Lords but one Lord.

19. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord;

20. So are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say; There are three Gods or three Lords.

21. The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten.

22. The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten.

23. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.

24. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits.

25. And in this Trinity none is afore or after another; none is greater or less than another.

26. But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal.

27. So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.

28. He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity.

29. Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

30. For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man.

31. God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of substance of His mother, born in the world.

32. Perfect God and perfect man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting.

33. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His manhood.

34. Who, although He is God and man, yet He is not two, but one Christ.

35. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of that manhood into God.

36. One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person.

37. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ;

38. Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead;

39. He ascended into heaven, He sits on the right hand of the Father, God, Almighty;

40. From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

41. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies;

42. and shall give account of their own works.

43. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire.

44. This is the catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.

Jan 19, 2012
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