Jonathan Craven

Gentleman classicist, musician, and tech nerd, living an Anglicanorum Coetibus life in the north of France. KHS

[Jonathan Craven @TenaciousWii]

@R_Strepparava @dominbydigdug It’s a great one to have, because you also get all the Greek text, so Carson’s translation is in dialogue with it and you can get from that what you want to take from it.

[Jonathan Craven @TenaciousWii]

@pegobry_en That’s on the New Yorker for finding the least representative or interesting bits of Anne Carson to share, here are some more representative (and IMO fat better) extracts of her work

[Jonathan Craven @TenaciousWii]

It seems I can now boast that I was taught Greek by a Nobel Prize winning poet 🤯 Congratulations to Anne Carson on a long overdue award! Her Ancient Greek seminars were a highlight of my undergrad at McGill (we read five books of Homer and one of Herodotus together)

[Fatherguy Everyman @thecathguy]

The image-death of judges over the past decade has been crazy. They went from these upstanding paragons of the law in most cases to rogue crimelords who inflict rapists and murderers on the general populace either out of sheer ignorance or profound malice.

[Felix Catus @catusXCI]

Il est incroyable que ces Américains ayant grandi entre une station service Texaco et un Burger King aient plus conscience de leurs racines que les Européens qui vivent au milieu des Abbayes, des Chateaux, des Amphithéatres romains etc

[Fr Thomas Crean OP @crean_fr]

It's much stranger that human beings exist, than that angels do.

[Fx Bellamy @fxbellamy]

Des journalistes semblent très inquiets d’avoir vu des gens se confesser sur les Champs-Élysées. Ils auraient peut-être préféré voir des vitrines cassées ? Si cette image était ce qui menace le plus la France, alors le pays irait très bien !

[A 🌸 @AThinksAloud]

If you had told me when I was in high school in the 1990s that someday the lead singer of Jars of Clay would say “I’m no longer sure who God is” and the lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins would say “Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior” I would have spit out my Slim Fast and stained my flannel shirt

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Attempting to BOMB a military base is not sufficient grounds to hold you. At times, I wonder if it is even worth continuing to fight for our liberties when it seems nearly impossible to extricate the West from its deep desire to commit Civilizational Seppuku.

[Jonathan Craven @TenaciousWii]

@chesswoodseats Wow and just as important is the discovery that the Ancient Greeks were producing texts with typewriters!

[Rorate Caeli @RorateCaeli]

Catholicism in France is safe. Its future is sound and bright.

And with a Catholic France in her heart, a Christian Europe is certain, no matter what difficulties may come.

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto!

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

This is just incredible. The Pope is absolutely loving this.

At the Prayer Vigil with the young people of France, they reenact the incredible history of the Church of France, from the arrival of Lazarus and his sister Mary Magdalene, the martyrdom of St. Denis, the baptism of Clovis, the purchase of the Crown of Thorns of Our Lord by St. Louis IX, St. Joan of Arc, the countless Saints of the eldest daughter of the Church, the martyrs of the French Revolution, all the way to the great St. Thérèse of Lisieux.

[Lord Mongrove @Bishop_Beesley]

Said it before and I'll say it again, do not plead guilty to a politically motivated charge.

You'll be told that if you do 1/3rd of your sentence will be knocked off and that you'll get bail pending trial.

Well you won't, no matter what you say, no matter how petty your offence you will be kept in custody pending trial - and if you've plead guilty you will be given an grossly excessive sentence justified on the basis that it will serve as an example to others.

Don't be tempted, if you're charged with a politically sensitive offence you will suffer prison time.

On the other hand juries can and do see through the political posturing of the state and more often then not will find you not guilty.

So I'll say it again, if the prosecution against you is politically motivated never, ever plead guilty - or you will do 2 years inside for throwing an empty plastic bottle and telling a copper what you think of him.

[PXAdri🇻🇦† @PXADRIE]

Macron accueille le pape à l’aéroport, mais il ne sera pas à la messe. Louis de Bourbon, si. Sur la place où Louis XVI a été exécuté, le chef de la Maison de Bourbon est présent. Le président de la République, non. La symbolique est nette.

[Louis de Bourbon @Louis_DucAnjou]

C’est avec une grande émotion que je verrai le Saint-Père célébrer la Messe sur le lieu même de l’exécution du roi Louis XVI.

Samedi, la France communiera dans la paix d’une cérémonie ouverte à tous. La place de la Concorde deviendra ainsi un lieu de réconciliation pour les Français.

Aujourd’hui, assumant pleinement cet héritage catholique reçu de mes pères, je suis fier de participer à cet événement porteur d’Amour et d’Espérance.

Retrouvez ma tribune à cette occasion dans le Journal du Dimanche.

https://t.co/5Njc71HCzH

[Jelly 果冻糕 @jellyjellycake]

how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS??

cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved???

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD.

goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single.

monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH???

birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about.

there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait.

squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES.

and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT???

your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to???

the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR.

I’M SORRY?????

we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

The West has never recovered from the Great War.

Consider what it does to a civilisation when entire generations of its best and brightest, its most honourable and courageous, are destroyed fighting a futile war against their brothers.

They were not just soldiers.

They were fathers and sons, poets and engineers, labourers and aristocrats.

The Old World died with them in the trenches.

The survivors, and the sons they raised, were conditioned to despise the very things that had built their world – law, order, honour, strength, religion, and war – which they blamed for their suffering.

And what is the product?

Modern man.

Modern man is the sociological product of this civilisational trauma. He is disconnected from tradition, suspicious of anything resembling strength, and taught to elevate passivity and tolerance to supreme virtues.

But we know who we are.

Modern man must realise that "Life is warfare", and suffering is an inescapable part of the human experience, and we will rebuild the world they lost.

[Damian Thompson @holysmoke]

It won’t happen, given the toxic prejudices of the Vatican’s liturgical mafia, but all restrictions should be removed on the celebration of the Ordinariate Mass.

[Vonbury Research @VonburyResearch]

Am I fucking insane or are people seriously not seeing the sequencing here?

Europe spent days front-running the narrative that Russia may escalate against Europe. Does anyone actually remember this???

Putin then VERY conspicuously said “Russia has no aggressive intentions toward Europe.”

Barely ~48 hours later Ukraine launched the largest drone attack Moscow has ever seen, on the final day of Russia’s election, hit its refinery and civilians died.

Everyone is pre-positioning the blame for whatever comes next right in front of us, and people are just consuming each headline individually.

[Jonathan Craven @TenaciousWii]

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