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Jeremy

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About Me



"But all the optimism of the age had been false and disheartening for this reason, that it had always been trying to prove that we fit in to the world. The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world. I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its meat from God. But now I really was happy, for I had learnt that man is a monstrosity. I had been right in feeling all things as odd, for I myself was at once worse and better than all things. The optimist's pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; the Christian pleasure was poetic, for it dwelt on the unnaturalness of everything in the light of the supernatural. The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I had still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy, like a bird in spring. The knowledge found out and illuminated forgotten chambers in the dark house of infancy. I knew now why grass had always seemed to me as queer as the green beard of a giant, and why I could feel homesick at home."
- G.K. Chesterton

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


I am looking for a place that is going to collect my commission, sell my dog, burn my bird, and sell me to the cigarette.

Music:



Books:

a heartbreaking work of staggering genius [eggers]
a medicine for the melancholy [bradbury]
the ankeny briefcase[bwc collection]
blue like jazz [miller]
grace (eventually)[lamott]
the irresistible revolution [claiborne]
on the road [kerouac]
the practice of the presence[lawrence]
through painted deserts [miller]
to kill a mockingbird [lee]
traveling mercies [lamott]
the weight of glory [lewis]
what's so amazing about grace? [yancey]
what we talk about when we talk about love [carver]