[Magdalen] Assembly Line Christmas.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Many, if not most, of us have had great epiphanies while voiding.

A woman asked, with regard to mushrooms on a menu, "What's a shittake?"
pronouncing it the way we would if we did not know better.
"About five minutes, if you've got a good book," answered the waiter (about
to go on a two week suspension for those glib responses for which he was
mildly famous).


James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> In a message dated 12/22/2015 1:08:08 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:
>
> He was  no dumbell, and well trained by the Augustinians.<<<
>
> I guess  you could say he was the first Protestant Catholic.  (Doy, says
> the  Peanut Gallery.)>>>>>>
>
>
> I've mentioned on this list, I think, my trip into what was East  Germany
> to follow, among other things, the life of JS Bach.  I discovered  that
> this crisscrossed with he life of Martin Luther.  I ended up  touring
> the Wartburg Castle, where Luther translated the Bible into German,
> and the monastic cell and the site of his ordination to the RC  priesthood,
> the latter at Erfurt Cathedral.  There were lots of smaller churches  where
> Luther had preached in places like Muhlhausen, Naumburg, Quedlinberg,
> etc., and most of them had guides that were actively proselytizing  about
> the Lutheran point of view throughout the tours.  I was surprised  about
> this.  I didn't think the former East Germans had it in them.
>
> And, of course you've got to love a man who made it quite clear that  he
> had come up with his Solo Fide theology out of the Epistle of Romans
> while meditating "on the throne."
>
>
>
> David Strang.
>