>”O Lady of Beauty, strength and support of my faint heart, it is time for thee to turn the eyes of thy greatness on this thy captive knight on the brink of so mighty an adventure.”

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Notes and quotes taken from a read-through of one of my all-time favorite books of theory:
Milan Kundera – The Art of the Novel
First published in French in 1986 as L’Art du roman
“Every novelist’s work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is; I have tried to […]

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Introduction to one of Brennan Manning’s books: The Ragamuffin Gospel -
“The Ragamuffin Gospel was written with a specific reading audience in mind: This book is not for the super-spiritual. It is not for muscular Christians who have made John Wayne and not Jesus their hero. It is not for academicians who […]

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Bennett was a scientist, and he wanted to begin in the dirt and the debris of the real physical world. But he took pleasure in sifting through that world, distilling it, cleaning and purifying it until he was left with a single mathematical equation of inescapable solution.

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