tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post4422741503689263063..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: Bishops and ToadsAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-2721959586469215732012-01-22T15:18:22.657-08:002012-01-22T15:18:22.657-08:00Rehan, my, how you know your man! I will be twent...Rehan, my, how you know your man! I will be twenty-six this summer but I'm determined to be a young woman until I am fifty. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-33496712120035270192012-01-22T15:15:34.904-08:002012-01-22T15:15:34.904-08:00Nobby, thanks. I shall remember that Chesterton q...Nobby, thanks. I shall remember that Chesterton quote. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-47304178523782609242012-01-21T10:19:25.145-08:002012-01-21T10:19:25.145-08:00Good blog Ana.Good blog Ana.Nobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088033081316289008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-60982210965708089202012-01-19T13:10:21.210-08:002012-01-19T13:10:21.210-08:00Michael Henchard's Will.
'That Elizabeth-...Michael Henchard's Will.<br /><br />'That Elizabeth-Jane be not told of my death, or made to grieve on account of me.'<br /><br />'& that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground.<br /><br />'& that no sexton be asked to see my dead body.<br /><br />'& that nobody is wished to see my dead body.<br /><br />'& that no mourners walk behind me at my funeral.<br /><br />'& that no flours be planted on my grave.<br /><br />'& that no man remember me.<br /><br />'To this I put my name.<br /><br />'Michael Henchard.' <br /><br />(Thomas Hardy. <i>The Mayor of Casterbridge,</i>. 1886).<br /><br /><b>The maternal tenacity of Hardy's mother on his life was so severe as to hamper and shadow everything in his first marriage. His biographer Michael Millgate writes that it marred him for life and was to answer for his noted immaturity. He describes himself as:</b><br /><br />A child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty.<br /><br />(Thomas Hardy. <i>The Life & Work of Thomas Hardy</i>. Palgrave Macmillan, 1984. 24).<br /><br /><b>Hardy told William Archer:</b><br /><br />The town-bred boy will often appreciate nature more than the country boy, but he does not know it in the same sense. He will rush to pick a flower which the country boy does not seem to notice. But it is part of the country boy's life. It grows in his soul - he does not want it in his buttonhole. <br /><br />(William Archer. <i>Real Conversations</i>. 1904. 32).<br /><br /><b>His wife Emma once wrote to a female friend:</b><br /><br />He understands only the women he <i>invents</i> - The others not at all - & he only writes for art, though ethics shows up. <br /><br />(<i>Letters of Emma & Florence Hardy</i>. Edited by Michael Millgate. Oxford University Press, 1996. 6). <br /><br /><b>Hardy was in on what has been dubbed the biggest cover-up of all time:</b><br /><br />That terrible, dogmatic, ecclesiasticism - Christianity so called but really Paulinism plus idolatory. <br /><br />(Thomas Hardy. <i>The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy</i>. Edited by Richard Little Purdy & Michael Millgate. Oxford University Press. Vol ii, 143).<br /><br /><b>In fact all forms of organised religion are consistently hostile to morality, the natural progress of mankind (both physical, mental and spiritual) and as such, to religion itself because it is always far removed from the original tenets of that faith. This is an ongoing theme in Hardy's novels: his distrust of and the hypocrisy of the established church and its denizens. It is a theme, also, in Dickens. It is also a literary device in Persian and Urdu literature in the figure of the Shaykh:</b><br /><br />The Shaikh is to Mir what the Holy Willies and the ‘Unco Guid’ are to his spiritual brother and younger contemporary, Robert Burns: and like Burns, he attacks them with ridicule, bawdy, and invective.<br /><br />(Ralph Russell. <i>Three Mughal Poets</i>. Oxford University Press, 1991. 200). <br /><br /><b>One of my favourite verses of Mir Taqi Mir in this regard is:</b><br /><br /><i>If the Shaykh comes naked to the mosque it is because he spent the night in the tavern<br />And in drunkenness gave off his expensive gown, his shirt, and his cap</i><br /><br /><b>William Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield burnt a copy of Jude the Obscure (Betjeman knew all about him and mentioned him in his Sweet songs of Zion radio broadcasts which have now, recently, been compiled and published) and boasted about it in a letter to the <i>Yorkshire Post</i>:</b><br /><br />The only sad feature in the matter to Hardy was that if the bishop could have known him as he was, he would have found a man whose personal conduct, views of morality, and of the vital facts of religion, hardly differed from his own. <br /><br />(Thomas Hardy. <i>The Life & Work of Thomas Hardy</i>. Palgrave Macmillan, 1984. 295).Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-16747656760474469062012-01-18T13:22:35.681-08:002012-01-18T13:22:35.681-08:00It would appear that many have been hoodwinked Ana...It would appear that many have been hoodwinked Ana. <br /><br />What these liberal lefties appear to unconsciously espouse is a Marxist viewpoint. According to Karl Marx all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive. <br /><br />In other words, history is the 'science of the search for food'. Let's read what GK Chesterton says on this subject:<br /><br />"This would certainly be true of the cow, which is why 'the cow has no history'. But saying that human actions are based on economic considerations is like saying that human actions 'have depended on having two legs'.Nobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088033081316289008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-57999438947530274692012-01-16T19:53:04.303-08:002012-01-16T19:53:04.303-08:00Marie Antoinette BeaumontMarie Antoinette Beaumontanthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-40626743415569705822012-01-16T15:59:30.798-08:002012-01-16T15:59:30.798-08:00Mark, alas the Church of England is a lost sheep: ...Mark, alas the Church of England is a lost sheep: it lost a role and cannot find a home. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-13165382847174127992012-01-16T15:58:05.386-08:002012-01-16T15:58:05.386-08:00Katy, don't worry; I shall. :-)Katy, don't worry; I shall. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-79113814357010675592012-01-16T15:57:29.751-08:002012-01-16T15:57:29.751-08:00Anthony, it really depends how you define social j...Anthony, it really depends how you define social justice. This turbulent priest wasn't really addressing anything in particular.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-49939025298998787302012-01-16T15:55:57.149-08:002012-01-16T15:55:57.149-08:00Calvin, absolutely!Calvin, absolutely!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-40868824036385110332012-01-16T05:54:12.410-08:002012-01-16T05:54:12.410-08:00I think part of the problem is that the clergy don...I think part of the problem is that the clergy don't really believe in what they used to believe in, religiously speaking, and so they find common cause with socialists and others who try to apply what were originally religious ideas and ideals to politics etc.<br /><br />But even serious lefties see through this occupy nonsense.Mark Englishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506844097173520312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-67096772331858827662012-01-15T22:12:49.733-08:002012-01-15T22:12:49.733-08:00nice post..keep it up
http://www.itsmealone.info/...nice post..keep it up<br /><br />http://www.itsmealone.info/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12791230578004303994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-17072604148618349362012-01-15T17:17:54.304-08:002012-01-15T17:17:54.304-08:00The Banksters have gotten too big for their britch...The Banksters have gotten too big for their britches and the clergy are to address issues of social injustice are they not?anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-83300768537285726962012-01-15T17:13:16.942-08:002012-01-15T17:13:16.942-08:00It is hard to think of a more odious parasite upon...It is hard to think of a more odious parasite upon mankind than organized religion, so it seems natural these fatuous clerics should discover an affinity with the socialist scroungers camped outside St. Paul's. Just wait until they are competing for handouts; that's when their true nature will reveal itself.Calvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640148105202971907noreply@blogger.com