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I rather like this quote I've just found.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see, and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
- Flannery O'Connor

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Date: 2008-09-15 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalquessa.livejournal.com
I just started a book of her essays this weekend, and so far I'm really impressed. She has a Chestertonian knack for saying things that I want said, only saying them better than I ever could.

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Date: 2008-09-15 08:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rj-anderson.livejournal.com
I have never read any O'Connor. I keep meaning to remedy that.

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Date: 2008-09-15 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] intertext.livejournal.com
That's great. I love Flannery O'Connor.

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Date: 2008-09-15 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parrot-knight.livejournal.com
There are a lot of potential questions there regarding the analogy, but I still like it.

(And thinking about it, the potential questions are specious ones based on phrases like 'tricks of the light', which could bear out O'Connor, on reflection.)

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Date: 2008-09-15 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] telperion1.livejournal.com
*claps* That's very true. :-)

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