Crazy Doug Fam: Reading Update

March 11, 2012

Reading Update

I have been reading along these last two and a half months which has let me into a new world of books more recently. I have also re-read a few books I enjoyed severla years ago and started some sequels that I think will add to other books I have enjoyed. I LOVE to read and I love to have my mind expand. Right now I am enjoying a walk through "following Jesus" with NT Wright (He's not the boogie man many conservatives make him out to be), a new fantasy "Circle of Magic", a history of stories of the civil war, a tale of the french resistence of the 2nd WW, a variation of mysteries in the "Memiors of Sherlock holmes", the spiritual journey of John Bunyan in "Grace Abounding", and a couple classic fiction including "My Man Jeeves" and "A Tale of Two Cities". So my book shelf is full, how does yours look?

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"Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. 'He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,' is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if we will risk it on the precipice.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. No philosopher, I fancy, has ever expressed this romantic riddle with adequate lucidity, and I certainly have not done so. But Christianity has done more: it has marked the limits of it in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living and him who dies for the sake of dying."— G.K. Chesterton

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March 11, 2012

Reading Update

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