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Even if I knew what to say about this new Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek) track, I don’t think I could do justice to its loveliness.
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Lately I’ve been singing in a vocal trio called Kill Dull Cares. We’re going to perform a few numbers at this wonderful event on Saturday.
Wouldn’t you like to come?
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Limbo
Fishermen at BallyshannonNetted an infant last nightAlong with the salmon.An illegitimate spawning,
A small one thrown backTo the waters. But I’m sureAs she stood in the shallowsDucking him tenderlyTill the frozen knobs of her wristsWere dead as the gravel,He was a minnow with hooksTearing her open.She waded in underThe sign of the cross.He was hauled in with the fish.Now limbo will beA cold glitter of soulsThrough some far briny zone.Even Christ’s palms, unhealed,Smart and cannot fish there.
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
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"The question was summed up for him thus: "If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept?" And in the whole arsenal of his convictions, so far from finding any satisfactory answers, he was utterly unable to find anything at all like an answer.
He was in the position of a man seeking food in toy shops and tool shops.
Instinctively, unconsciously, with every book, with every conversation, with every man he met, he was on the lookout for light on these questions and their solution.
What puzzled and distracted him above everything was that the majority of men of his age and circle had, like him, exchanged their old beliefs for the same new convictions, and yet saw nothing to lament in this, and were perfectly satisfied and serene. So that, apart from the principal question, Levin was tortured by other questions too. Were these people sincere? he asked himself, or were they playing a part? or was it that they understood the answers science gave to these problems in some different, clearer sense than he did? And he assiduously studied both these men’s opinions and the books which treated of these scientific explanations.
One fact he had found out since these questions had engrossed his mind, was that he had been quite wrong in supposing from the recollections of the circle of his young days at college, that religion had outlived its day, and that it was now practically non-existent. All the people nearest to him who were good in their lives were believers. The old prince, and Lvov, whom he liked so much, and Sergey Ivanovitch, and all the women believed, and his wife believed as simply as he had believed in his earliest childhood, and ninety-nine hundredths of the Russian people, all the working people for whose life he felt the deepest respect, believed.
Another fact of which he became convinced, after reading many scientific books, was that the men who shared his views had no other construction to put on them, and that they gave no explanation of the questions which he