There was a time when a certain citizen insulted George, the Patriarch’s nephew. George asked the saint to avenge the wrong. The saint promised to deal with the offender so that all of Alexandria would marvel at what he had done. This calmed George, and Saint John began to instruct him, speaking of the necessity for meekness and humility. Then he summoned the man who insulted George. When Saint John learned that the man lived in a house owned by the church, he declared that he would excuse him from paying rent for an entire year. Alexandria indeed was amazed by such a “revenge”….
Here’s an easy trick for telling a journalist’s bias.
When the journalist is (at least vaguely) in favor of the politician, then the politician “declined” to answer the question; when the journalist is against the politician, then the politician “refused.”
I am slowly cataloguing all my books via LibraryThing. Here’s what formally joined the collection this week.
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. trans. Rex Warner. New York: Penguin (1972).
Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Folio Society (2008).
Mark Keane, ed. The Oxford Book of Upper-Voice Polyphony: A Collection of Sixteenth-Century Motets in Two to Six Parts. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2021).
Benedict Sheehan, David Armstrong, and Paul Kappanadze, eds. A Common Book of Church Hymns: Great Vespers. South Canaan, PA: St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press (2024).
C. S. Forester. Hornblower and the “Hotspur”. Boston: Back Bay Books (1990).
François-Xavier Fauvelle. The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages. trans. Troy Tice. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2018).
I am slowly cataloguing all my books via LibraryThing. Here’s what formally joined the collection this week.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications (2004).
Mark Twain. The Complete Short Stories and Famous Essays of Mark Twain. New York: P. F. Collier & Son (1928).
Morgan Eckroth. Coffee, for Here: The Ultimate Handbook for At-Home Coffee Enthusiasts. Photographs by Eric Medsker. Illustrations by Elizabeth Chai. New York: Clarkson Potter (2026).
Ursula K. Le Guin. Catwings. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2023).
Ursula K. Le Guin. Catwings Return. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2023).
Ursula K. Le Guin. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2023).
Ursula K. Le Guin. Jane on Her Own. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2023).