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  1. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    An introduction to Bernard Lonergan: Exploring Lonergan's approach to the great philosophical questions by Peter Beer, SJ Socrates meets Kierkegaard: The father of philosophy meets the father of Christian existentialism by Peter Kreeft
  2. John Boyer

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    One of Art's hats... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=720104254678837&set=a.568785366477394.1073741826.100000378088399&type=1&relevant_count=1
  3. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle To Save The World by Evan Thomas Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  4. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    The Selected Letters of John Keats: Selected and with Introduction by Lionel Trilling; and Gentry Magazine #3 (Summer 1952)
  5. John Boyer

    Poetry

    Saddened to learn of the passing of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, noted once by Robert Lowell as the “most important Irish poet since Yeats." After "L'Aquilone" by Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912) Air from another life and time and place, Pale blue heavenly air is supporting A...
  6. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    I enjoyed this book immensely. However, I still appreciate the Scholastic Economists and the Distributists. You should consider "Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element" by John D. Mueller
  7. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    Revelation by Flannery O'Connor from her collection Everything That Rises Must Converge
  8. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    Collected Stories of Sherwood Anderson Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy by Stephen A. Black
  9. John Boyer

    Poetry

    A case of contradictories, both of them true. There is a God, There is no God. Where is the problem? I am quite sure that there is a God in the sense that I am sure my love is no illusion. I am quite sure there is no God, in the sense that I am sure there is nothing which resembles what I...
  10. John Boyer

    Poetry

    Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket, Wrapped and spiced by the cunningest of hands. Around her neck they have put a golden necklace, Her tatbebs, it is said, are worn with sands. Dead Cleopatra was once revered in Egypt, Warm-eyed she was, this princess of the South. Now she is old...
  11. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    Mother: The Great Revolutionary Novel by Maxim Gorky
  12. John Boyer

    What cigar (or pipe) did you smoke today?

    Viaje Honey & Hand Grenade Cigar
  13. John Boyer

    What cigar (or pipe) did you smoke today?

    A Tsuge: Tokyo smooth cherrywood and bamboo pipe with Astley's #2 tobacco.
  14. John Boyer

    Poetry

    Matthew Arnold, romantically describing the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland: Hark! the wind rushes past us! Ah! with that let me go. There to watch, o'er the sunk vale The frore mountain-wall, Where the niched snow-bed sprays down Its powdery fall. There its dusky blue clusters The...
  15. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    Matthew Arnold by Lionel Trilling; and The Moral Obligation to be Intelligient: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling
  16. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    "The Man Without Qualities" by Robert Musil
  17. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    "Romes Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Ceasar" by Rod Goodman and; "The Devil's Dictionary, Tales & Memoirs" by Ambrose Bierce
  18. John Boyer

    What Are You Reading

    Sir Walter Scott by John Buchan and; Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element by John D. Mueller
  19. John Boyer

    Poetry

    Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travelers, Is Reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so Reason’s glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way; But guide us upward to a better day...
  20. John Boyer

    Poetry

    Allegro After a black day, I play Haydn, and feel a little warmth in my hands. The keys are ready. Kind hammers fall. The sound is spirited, green, and full of silence. The sound says that freedom exists and someone pays no taxes to Caesar. I shove my hands in my haydnpockets and...

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