Monday 15 December 2014

From W.H. Auden...

A patrimonial disposition, I think. Very sensible.

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  1. This is great. Two wonderful quotes: "an English Mass which is a cacophonous monstrosity" and "one of the great functions of the liturgy is to keep us in touch with the past and dead." Very sensible, indeed!

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    1. Yes, and "I implore you by the bowels of Christ to stick to Cranmer and King James."

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  2. Perhaps burning to death a literary genius was not such a good idea...

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  3. Nice! Good old WH! Mind you, this was the man who told the New York Tolkien Society that their hero lived a in a "hideous" house with "hideous" pictures on the walls.

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  4. This letter proves incontrovertibly that Rome is incapable of aesthetic greatness.

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