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Fic post: The Exercise of Virtue.
Feb. 16th, 2009 10:50 amThe Exercise of Virtue.
Exegesis! fic, to invent a new genre label, on the story of the Syro-Phoenician woman (Matthew 15:21-28; Mark 7:24-30), who may be anonymous, but is the only person recorded as having changed Jesus’ mind (although I suppose that depends how you read the Wedding at Cana). 1410 words.
The awareness
Of things ill done, or done to others’ harm,
which once you took for exercise of virtue.
T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding.”
( A wave of impatience suddenly overcame the woman, impatience with everyone who believed these stupid rules about who belonged and who didn’t, and then felt guilty whether they kept them or broke them, when it was always other people who actually paid the price. )
Exegesis! fic, to invent a new genre label, on the story of the Syro-Phoenician woman (Matthew 15:21-28; Mark 7:24-30), who may be anonymous, but is the only person recorded as having changed Jesus’ mind (although I suppose that depends how you read the Wedding at Cana). 1410 words.
The awareness
Of things ill done, or done to others’ harm,
which once you took for exercise of virtue.
T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding.”
( A wave of impatience suddenly overcame the woman, impatience with everyone who believed these stupid rules about who belonged and who didn’t, and then felt guilty whether they kept them or broke them, when it was always other people who actually paid the price. )