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Before the episode and the initial hospitalization, before the resistance to the doctors’ insistence that you be put on medication, the way you slyly maneuvered through the hospital halls, playing hangman with Hannah, and plotting together to free everyone, before the giving in and getting put on an anti-psychotic and mood stabilizer, before the months-long depression and the subsequent anti-depressant prescription, before the now attendant anxiety, the hot waves of displeasure coursing down your spine, on recalling again and again the whole year-long process this has been, before all of that, you had such a beautiful mind.
Hans Assmann and the Lake Bodom murders.
What do the words cenacle, thurible, hebdomadary, responsory, versicle, balneary, and cicatrizant all have in common: I only know them because I read The Name of the Rose.
Le Corbusier ruined everything.
A catechism is a summing up of the tenets of Christianity in the form of a Q&A, for example, “Why does God allow suffering? Because suffering is... good. How can God justify perdition? God does not have to justify his actions for He is God and in His divine and perfect wisdom, there must always be an element of the incomprehensible.”
傻大個兒 is Chinese for “a stupid, great hulk of a man.”