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About meRoman Catholic priest. Due to two different academic formations, in Late Roman History and in Theology, I find myself currently teaching Classical History and Literature and Church History to future priests.
About my libraryI own all the items listed here. More or less reluctantly, I have included some DVDs, CDs, periodicals, maps and catalogues, which are an integral part of my working library. The book listing shows also other particular interests of mine, some of them clearly related to my teaching (Desert Fathers, French Revolution, 19th-century French Catholicism), but others that are no more than fascinating asides (Mughal India, the British Raj, the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, the English "War Poets," historical mysteries...)
This listing is a work in progress, not only because I keep revising and trying to improve it, but also because I keep getting books - far too many, to the point where the unread widely outnumber the read ones. Yes, that is the sad truth: I haven't read everything on my shelves. And yet, I have never acquired anything that I didn't intend to read - telling myself that one day I will finally read it, or search for something in it, or at least open it at random to snatch a bit of knowledge or of wisdom. Perhaps I have been too optimistic, because by now it looks as if multiple lifetimes will not be enough... My excuse ? That I try to follow the advice of St. Edmund of Abingdon to his monks : "Study as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow..."
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2009, July 22 - a milestone reached : 4,000 items catalogued !
2009, September 16 - Autumn cleaning of the shelves... the dross is going away...
2009, October 31 - It's a losing battle. The shelves are filling up again... My DVD collection has been entered into the Take11 site, and one day will entirely migrate there.
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"Disce omnia, videbis postea nihil esse superfluum" [ Hugh of St. Victor ]
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. Some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation; and His hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another..." [ John Donne ]
"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours..." [ Alan Bennett ]
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October 17 is the feast day of St. Ignatius of Antioch. When I was a kid his feast day was Feb 1. I know there is a book in Italian or French which tells why the date was changed. Unfortunately I cannot read Italian or French. Is there some place which will tell me in English the reasons for the change in his feast day, and also the reasons for each of the other changes e.g., St Benedict, St Thomas Aquinas, St Leo the Great, etc.
I have been seeking an answer to this question for a long time. One would thank that book would have been translated into English by now.
Then it occurred to me that you might have a better answer rhan they will give me. Do you?
posted by Schmerguls at 5:42 am (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
I was pleased to find your greetings on my profile page; it is good to hear from you, and I hope you are well.
Indeed, my library is increasing. There doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it. Alas. You mention on your profile page that you've been weeding out some of your books, after having hit the milestone of 4,000 books. After my collection reached 4,000 some time back I also tried to reduce my collection, but I keep acquiring books anyway. I find that it can be cumbersome, this need to have books to support every possible interest.
It's only recently that I started reading about the Vietnam war, triggered (no pun intended) by finding an interesting Vietnam memoir at a library book sale. It seems odd, with my interest in WWI and in the human costs of war, that I'd read nothing about Vietnam before this. I notice that you have Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone. Have you read his novel The Things They Carried? It's similar in style to Combat Zone, but in my view is even more powerful. It leaves me wondering how it could be that a novel, though based on real life, could affect a reader's emotions differently, and more powerfully, than a memoir of similar events. It's certainly something to think about.
Maggie
posted by MaggieO at 1:49 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2009
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