Erik Dempsey

Ass't Director of the Jefferson Center at UT-Austin. Catholicism, Aristotle, Strauss, Phish, Gene Wolfe, etc. Brought to you by the numbers 3, 17, and 12/9/95.

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Gene Wolfe, Sword of the Lictor. Heh.

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@chezaristote Contemptus mundi?

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Let’s go yan Kees

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@jpodhoretz blocked

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Every spoken word was a pilgrim, in some sense, passing through the valley of the shadow of death."
Lauren Spohn ponders death from the dentist’s chair: https://t.co/KE4x0pHrd1

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@zzyzx you mean 30 years ago?

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@bizarchive It's probably not a tease, but the jam in the 8/2/97 Hood from about 10:00-12:00, especially at 10:30 and 11:15, sounds quite a bit like Leprechaun. Tease or not, it's gorgeous.

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Schubert, man.

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@bronwenmcshea @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCMayor @NYPDPC @AJ_Cats_ Awful. Very sorry.

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Each Gene Wolfe novel reads like it was written by a different author, and yet also reads like it could have been written only by Gene Wolfe.

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@HAHazony I read this in light of his treatment of grace and original sin: not just the Jews, but no one could merit so great a good without grace. Thus Abraham's faith was infused and "gratuitous," i.e. possible through grace. Mirrors Thomas' account of justification.

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@StephenPiment @thenewthinkery I haven't listened to the new podcast, but I too recommend Gene Wolfe. My pinned tweet is from him.

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@Christo66947097 Thanks anyway!

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@Christo66947097 Do you happen to know of any good writings on Rousseau on Calvin?

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@alexpriou I don't know what Shakespeare thought, but you might look at Heiko Oberman's Luther biography, part 2. My instinct is, no, he was not.

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@HannesKerber I may not measure up to Strauss in other ways, but my handwriting too is quite poor.

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@TPCarney and of course Jon Lawless

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@TPCarney Brock Storm, Drake Dragon

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@gracie_hetzel @HootenWilson Why that? (I ask b/c it's the only major Dostoevsky novel I've never read)