tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post3367663530199938795..comments2023-12-28T16:38:26.304-08:00Comments on ACravan: MESSRS VALIANT-FOR-TRUTHACravanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-20701252493449755362013-05-26T07:34:29.521-07:002013-05-26T07:34:29.521-07:00I haven't seen A Serious Man, but based on you...I haven't seen A Serious Man, but based on your recommendation, I will. The Proverbs quote reminds me in a way of the Heraclitus fragment: "Nature loves to hide." The passage here, which I possibly should have made clearer, comes from the beginning of Memory Hold-The Door, John Buchan's memoirs. Although Buchan is mostly known today as the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, the parts of his writings that are concerned with spirituality are some of his high points. Mr Standfast is a sort of long disquisition on The Pilgrim's Progress in the form of a (very fine) World War I novel. His last novel, Sick Heart River, which was published posthumously, is really his best. It's a subtle, stirring redemption story set in the Canadian wilderness. Hope you're having a good Memorial Day weekend. In the Hudson Valley, it's absolutely freezing. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-19138028691282946542013-05-26T05:58:33.785-07:002013-05-26T05:58:33.785-07:00Oh, I guess I’d classify myself as semi-literate, ...Oh, I guess I’d classify myself as semi-literate, mostly from reading newspapers. I follow a few authors, Thomas Pynchon, Jack Kerouac, Jorge Luis Borges the most notable. As far as bibles I can’t say I owned one after high school, ironically until reading about Aleister Crowley, via the metaphysician Phillip Bonewits. I sure needed the reference so I did get one. I forget if it was the King James, probably. At any rate upon reading the historian Mircea Eliade, again a great influence on Bonewits, I discovered that he used the Jerusalem Bible. I have the Doubleday Standard Edition, 1998, quite a stately book. I am curious as to how similar the translations are. I know they are revising all the time. But you have managed prompt me to check one out of the library. <br /><br />I wonder if you have seen Joel and Ethan Coen’s A SERIOUS MAN ? Their tribute to Job, and rather humorous with a pointed message. This prompted me to read the book. Unsettling to say the least. I reflected on Jim Morrison’s ‘you cannot petition the Lord with prayer’. I think the purpose of occultism is to preserve the will. <br /><br />'To conceal a matter, this is the glory of God/To sift it thoroughly, the glory of kings/The heavens for height, the earth for depth/unfathomable, as are the hearts of kings' Proverbs 25:2-3 (Jerusalem Bible)Gary A Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11212510186968039070noreply@blogger.com