Recovering from Moral Injury after War
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Seth Wieck | October 27, 2012
@james_ka_smith tweeted this to me after my last post. If you decide not to read it, then I’ll probably be quoting paragraphs from it over the next few weeks. Introduction, Soul Repairhttp://www.scribd.com/embeds/110229994/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll
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Seth Wieck | October 27, 2012
The sacramental imagination, which affirms the goodness of creation, animates an iconic imagination that affirms the presence of the invisible in the visible—that ‘lifts up’ the messiness of bodies to be more than biological machines. James K.A. Smith, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? (via cwmyers) I think this way of seeing the world – creation as sacrament […]
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Seth Wieck | October 27, 2012
It is too often forgotten that man is impossible without imagination, without the capacity to invent for himself a conception of life, to ‘ideate’ the character he is going to be. Whether he be original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself…Among…possibilities I must choose. Hence, I am free. But, be it well […]
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Seth Wieck | October 21, 2012
For expert writers like Bellow, Woolf, Carter and Nabokov, excess, somewhat paradoxically, is of the essence – so that excess might not even be the correct term after all. Life, they seem to say, is rarely transparent, and therefore neither are their sentences. More than this, their sentences do not merely reflect reality in any […]
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Seth Wieck | October 4, 2012
msodradek: Still from chapter 8 of Roberto Rossellini’s Francesco, giullare di Dio (Francis, God’s Jester, 1950) Franciscan Grotesquerie … [Francis of Assisi]’s public appearances … are always impressive, graphic, and indeed scenic. The anecdotes which relate them are very numerous, and among them there are some which strike later taste as almost grotesque or even […]
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Seth Wieck | October 4, 2012
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=3452440983/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/ I have a friend, Ryan Culwell, who writes and performs songs out in Nashville. It’s been a few years and a move across the country since he released anything, but here is the latest thing: Golden On the Plains. I think it’s pretty great. Next month, he’ll release a four song EP called Winter […]
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