Henry VI, Part 2
Henry was more martyr than king and developed a cult after he was slain. Quotes from The Brothers York by Thomas Penn: “As a shuffling Harry was led the short Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Quotes
Weekend 528.0 (Barnet)
A quote from the The Brothers York by Thomas Penn: “The fog lent the fighting a more desperate edge than usual. Hand-gunners and archers fired at the invisible enemy at Continue Reading →
Henry VI
“A man who could, on occasion, assert his royal will and make decisions, but whose interests were not those of most medieval kings, being far more focused on his afterlife Continue Reading →
Profiles in Leadership: Kamala Harris
“So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a Continue Reading →
Weekend 526.0 (palaces made of lime and stone)
“People simply refused to believe what was happening…” Finished The Brothers York by Thomas Penn. Some more quotes, substitutions, archeological curiosities, and final thoughts (and what comes next). Quotes “Late Continue Reading →
Weekend 523.1
“Judica me, Deus, discerne causam meum de gente non sancta.” Psalm 42 Quotes from The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn: “Meanwhile, shortly before sunset on Thursday 18 Continue Reading →
Adolf Hitler or Justin Trudeau?
“The small, fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa, who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing, do not represent the views of Canadians who Continue Reading →
Weekend 521.3
“It’s been remarked many times that Walt was Mickey, Mickey was Walt—and nowhere is that more evident than in the iconic scenes of Mickey eagerly improvising an airplane and taking Continue Reading →
In manifestos and the darkly allusive language of prophecy…
“Across the country, people struggling to make a living — from the propertied gentry to smallholders and labourers — were sick of a ruling class that had become a byword Continue Reading →
Weekend 521.1
“Many other works belong, so to speak, to all the world, but the world has cast them aside, or slandered them, or mangled them beyond recognition. The world will have Continue Reading →
Weekend 506.0
(1) Two from T.S. Eliot: “Longer and darker the day, shorter and colder the night. Still and stifling the air: but a wind is stored up in the East. The Continue Reading →
Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.
“But the legalized looting of the monasteries and chantries by the Crown and its agents in the 1530s and 1540s set an example which other were swift to follow.” The Continue Reading →
Weekend 498.0 (mirror of divine clarity or omniscience)
(1) Quotes from The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Duffy: “Market forces dominated, a fact which permits some degree of confidence in using the resulting compilations as indicators of lay opinion. Continue Reading →
Weekend 494.1
(1) A quote from The Art and Craft of Stained Glass by E.W. Twining: “To be able to design for glass, in colour, a beautiful figure, perfectly proportioned, gracefully posed Continue Reading →
Weekend 492.3 (and all the rest)
Needed a placeholder. There’s a growing tension between Catholics regarding the Church pre and post Second Vatican Council. Not sure I have an opinion yet that isn’t influenced by causality Continue Reading →