John Koontz

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@PartTimePhilo No spot for Kierkegaard?

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@SimoninSuffolk You seem destined to find and post such glorious things!

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[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

When I was a college student, I once addressed a professor as “Mister” and he condescendingly tut-tutted me and said “Doctor.” Hey, listen, unless you can save someone’s life or you’re Julius Erving, you can settle the fuck down with that energy.

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@DonPJenn Still the case.

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Time for the Antigone Spring Books Give-away! 40+ books and pamphlets on offer worldwide. Just repost this message and follow us, and on Sunday 3 names will be drawn. 1st chooses 20 things, 2nd 12, 3rd gets the rest. We'll add details of the items over coming days. Good luck all!

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@awolverton77 Fascinating recommendations, Andy. Thanks.

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@CharlesFLehman @InezFeltscher @CityJournal Great piece. For a philo-Semitic non-Jew, it is the clearest explication of this puzzling phenomenon I have ever read. Thanks so much.

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@JeremyTate41 Mansfield Park for the Austen reading? Curious choice.

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@JeffDuncanson Not sure you're gonna like these much, Jeff, but here goes:
The Dry Wood (Caryll Houselander)
Brideshead Revisited
Middlemarch
David Copperfield
True Grit
Last of the Mohicans
The Long Goodbye
Jayber Crow
The Samurai (Endo)
War and Peace

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@GeltnerJonathan Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov; Bernanos: Diary of a Country Priest; Endo: Silence and/or The Samurai; Houselander: The Dry Wood; Waugh: Brideshead Revisted.

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@JeffDuncanson @wmboyle4 Yes.

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@last_of_england @jerrylatter visually stunning. But I wonder if its beauty promotes devotion, aids worship, and directs one's attention heavenward. Or is it, in a sense, too beautiful, so much so as to distract rather than help to compose one's spirit.

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@last_of_england @jerrylatter Your posts are one of the chief delights -- intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic -- of Twitter. I have great respect for Nairn's judgment. And though I have yet to visit All Saints, I certainly will during my next trip to London. Judging by your photographs, it appears to be

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

In honor of Keanu Reeves' birthday today:

This is Matrix movie star Keanu Reeves. He was abandoned by his father at the age of 3 and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter passed away at birth. His wife passed away in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, passed away of an overdose. His sister battled leukemia.

No bodyguards, no luxury houses. Keanu lives in an ordinary apartment and likes wandering around town and is often seen riding a subway in NYC.

When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants, one crying as he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 - On the same day, Keanu deposited the necessary amount in his bank account.

In his career, he has donated large sums to hospitals, including $75 million of his earnings from “The Matrix” to charities.

In 2010, on his birthday, Sept 2nd, Keanu walked into a bakery & bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.

In 1997, some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.

In life, sometimes the ones most broken from inside are the ones most willing to help others.

This man could buy everything, and instead, every day he gets up and chooses one thing that can not be bought:

To be a caring person.
Simple Acts of Kindness

Share this — who knows, maybe Keanu will see it for his birthday!

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@RubenF_Artist @emzanotti Very nice -- especially the sweetness of her smile, a smile which one seldom sees in photographs of her.

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@TheDarkPages @LeavingFilmstrk Also The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Farewell My Lovely. In each, I think, his performance is honed to perfection.