Ragbags and Bricolage
John Sheltonan occasional smattering of thoughts, quotes, articles, & other miscellenia (typically about politics, theology, philosophy, and/or literature)
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5 Top Fives From 2025
If any of these make you really mad, be sure to let me know. For my own part, I wrathfully texted a friend upon receiving his Christmas card, in which he claimed Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning was his favorite film of 2025 (the rebuke...
St. Lucy and the Church Calendar
The Times They Are A-Changin’
‘TIS the year’s midnight, and it
is the day’s,
Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;
The sun is spent, and now his flasks
Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;
The world...
Fisher Kings & Sundry Things
Like some broken fisher king of old, I have wandered about my lands with a limp for the past several weeks. The moral of the story is to never lean too far out over the rocks while net-fishing or the local shellfish population will tear you...
Ragbag #6
Words Related
Laurel and laureate:
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Laureate, as in “poet laureate” or “rest on one’s laurels,” comes from laureatus (woodenly: “laurel-ed”; more poetically: “crowned with laurels”).
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Victors in contests were crowned accordingl...
Simone Weil & T. S. Eliot
Summer Reading Groups: Eliot & Weil
I have been thinking a lot about T. S. Eliot and Simone Weil ever since reading Alan Jacobs’ excellent The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis (I reviewed the book at Provide...
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