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Old scores forgotten in a German kitchen, Taking the fun out of reading, Root plus canal = what? Barney Ross . . .
His daughter for a horse, Greek philosopher’s fascination with pseudo-Egyptian origins, dynamite teachers who abide no nonsense, Mailer’s white Negro?
1996, Black matters matter, school matters, what to do, what to do? Praising and complaining., Where’s Papa?
School principal talks nonsense, Mrs. V. talks bureaucrat-ese, the Evanston High experience, the Hemingway lesson, the Lefkowitz book, Afrocentrism . . .
5/1/1996 Blithe Spirit revisited: Churchgoing, the handshake of peace, the Christian myth, Mary Lefkowitz taking on the Afrocentrists in advance of critical race theorizing . . .
WHIPS AND NAILS We Jesuit novices of 72 years ago got to Palm Sunday in our Long Retreat meditations and then a second break day, 17 or 18 days into the retreat. Now the Third Week . . .
. . . on the passion and death of Christ—Mel Gibson stuff, imagining it all in detail.
When Gibson’s movie came out, I was not tempted to see it and did not, having already spent a week immersed in this gruesome denouement. Shades were drawn again, mood turned somber, laughter disappeared, the novice master did not smile.
For five or so days, we went chapter and verse, line by line through the grim tale. We imagined details—whips, nails, betrayal, agony of prayer, submission to the will of the father, burlesque-like denial by Peter, the sorrows of the mother, the loyalty of the women friends. . . .
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Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground 