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Congratulations to Dr Paul Farmer. @OrbisBooks
Dr. Paul Farmer Is Awarded the $1 Million Berggruen Prize nytimes.com/2020/12/16/arts/…
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Asked what he would do if told that the world was ending tomorrow, the master said he would first finish building his wall; play one last round of golf; exact revenge on all his enemies; and then he would finally learn to play the guitar. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Rather than measure the harvest shortfall in terms of bushels, the master preferred to imagine many tiny grains of wheat, which, if stacked one upon another, could reach all the way to the moon, thus providing a ladder to unlimited cheese. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Orbis Spotlight: Gospel of Mark maryknollmagazine.org/2020/1… via @MaryknollFrsBrs
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My interview with my oldest friend Jim Forest about his new memoir, “Writing Straight with Crooked Lines,” recounting adventures with Merton, Dorothy Day, Dan Berrigan, Thich Nhat Hanh, and others. @OrbisBooks piped.video/5nBloeGroE8 via @YouTube
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One of the master’s “children” was actually his agent, planted in the family and raised since birth to detect and thwart treachery toward the estate. Unfortunately, over the years, he had forgotten which one, and now didn’t know how to call off the mission. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The master reflected that if tomorrow all the things were gone he’d worked for all his life, and he had to start again with just his children and his third wife, he would still be proud to live in a land where at least men like him were free. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The president retweets promise to jail GOP governor and Sec of State in Georgia. Situation normal.
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So grateful to @paracletepress for this conversation with @GLEarnshaw, which covered my friendship with #HenriNouwen, the meaning of hope in a time of uncertainty, the role of discernment, and the experience of the pandemic as a "long Advent season." bit.ly/3mtNmYx
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Each morning, as the master read the paper, he was buoyed by sunny reports of life on the estate and ebullient accounts of his own accomplishments, unaware—perhaps willfully so—that this “alternative news” was composed during the night by his own staff. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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In the epigraph to his great novel "The Russia House," John le Carré quoted May Sarton: "One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
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Perhaps because I am a man serving as publisher of an academic press, people often err on the side of caution and address me as "Dr. Ellsberg." But no, I didn't finish my dissertation. So much respect for those who did--especially women scholars. #DrBiden
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Author of no fewer than 25 titles with @OrbisBooks! Happy birthday, maestro! bit.ly/3oLujtW
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Just got a box yesterday. The cookies were in a plastic bag inside the paper, which, as you see, still worked!
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Good time to re-read this speech by John le Carré earlier this year on winning the Olaf Palme award.
Powerful speech by John le Carré on winning the Olaf Palme awar “One day somebody will explain to me why it is that, at a time when science has never been wiser, or the truth more stark, or human knowledge more available, populists and liars are in such pressing demand.”
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RIP, the Dostoevsky of Cold War thrillers. He showed how enemies can end up mirroring one another—and the truth of Nietzsche’s warning, that when you long gaze into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
“le Carré’s true subject is not spying,” wrote @fromTGA “It is the endlessly deceptive maze of human relations: the betrayal that is a kind of love, the lie that is a sort of truth, good men serving bad causes and bad men serving good.” nytimes.com/2020/12/13/books…
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