hair form #5

“precious fleece” (Milton, Samson Agonistes, l. 538)

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hair form #4

“fatal harvest.” (Milton, Samson Agonistes, l. 1024).

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hair form #3

“faithful soldiery.” (Milton, Samson Agonistes, l. 1498.)

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hair form #2

Radical tuft.

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hair forms #1

“Subtle wreath.” (Donne, The Funeral, l. 3).

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Augustine on the peace of decomposition

“He, then, who prefers what is right to what is wrong, and what is well-ordered to what is perverted, sees that the peace of unjust men is not worthy to be called peace in comparison with the peace of the just. And yet even what is perverted must of necessity be in harmony with, and [...]

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J. de Gruchy on the mutuality of the transcendental predicates

“Truth without goodness and beauty degenerates into dogmatism, and lacks the power to attract and convince; goodness without truth is superficial, and without beauty – that is, without graced form – it degenerates into moralism. Alternatively we could say that truth and goodness without beauty lack power to convince and therefore to save.” (J. de [...]

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Christopher Alexander’s mystical ordinary

“The wall runs east to west; the peach tree grows flat against its southern side. The sun shines on the tree and as it warms the bricks behind the tree, the warm bricks themselves warm the peaches on the tree. It has a slightly dozy quality. The tree, carefully tied to grow flat against the [...]

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Latour on the impossibility of reduction

“We may now see what the two collectors, nature and society, have in common: they are both premature attempts to collect in two opposite assemblies the one common world….So the redefinition of politics as the progressive composition of the common world has to be applied [255] to the former assemblages of society as well as [...]

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psyche and prayer

The inner life of Christian tradition has far more depth than is often treated in modern psychology [...] The inner life of the Tradition is not inimical to modern psychology. In their own time, the early fathers adopted the popular language of the inner life, found in Platonic (neo-Platonic and Stoic as well) philosophy. However, they [...]

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