For religious man, nature is never only 'natural'; it is always fraught with religious value.
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“Desert Father Donkey Kong”
Original Poetry from Graham Pardun
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Eliot on Tradition
If the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, “tradition” should positively be discouraged … Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. It involves, in the first place, the historical sense … and the historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence ...This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of…
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Lewis on the Outlook of an Age
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books. All contemporary writers share to some extent the contemporary outlook – even those, like myself, who seem most opposed to it.
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Travel That Shatters Our Images: Revisiting Brideshead
The way out of a tiresome tour bus and onto the pilgrim road is an odd, unpredictable combination of grace and a mind willing to leave preconceived frames at home.
