grahame greene

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You're right, I wasn't being wholly facetious, because your comments aren't even wrong. It's either good instincts, or you're a secret reader.

 

[luka]

More on the way...

Hi Luke I will bring The Comedians, The Heart of the Matter and the Human Factor, which is all I can find by Graham Greene. The head librarian Romford Road.

 

[luka]

Oh I know your motives are good, they always are. I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

etc

 

[Corpsey]

I read Brighton Rock years ago and now can't remember anything much about it – why do I even read books? Perhaps the point isn't remembering, but what other point could there be?

 

[Corpsey]

I even read Death in Venice twice, in a row, not only to remember it more but that was one motivation.

And I can't remember anything about it now.

This has become a point of real neurosis for me.

I do suspect that I've blasted my memory to bits with weed.

 

[IdleRich]

The American is young and a virgin. The Englishman is old and has 'had' over 40 women. The American gets his facts from books, the Englishman knows from experience. The American drinks lime juice, the Englishman is pickled in whisky and smokes opium each evening.

It's almost as though they are some kind of metaphor for their respective countries... although that's actually one I have never read so could be talking bollocks obviously. And if I had read it.

 

[IdleRich]

all too aware of their own weakness and complicity and are suspicious of fine motives and purity and rhetoric

I was gonna say that The Heart of the Matter constitutes a counter example to that... but that's not right exactly. There is a fine motive in there somewhere but it is definitely treated with suspicion and dragged down into the dark and hidden.

 

[Corpsey]

i'm interested in the subject of why so many prominent intellectuals converted to Catholicism around that time

not sure if this is the best book on the subject but it's the only one i can find by googling

Amazon product ASIN 0801486637

 

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i'm interested in the subject of why so many prominent intellectuals converted to Catholicism around that time

not sure if this is the best book on the subject but it's the only one i can find by googling

Amazon product ASIN 0801486637

Corpsey, you should really go and experience Vespers and Benediction at the Brompton Oratory at 3pm on Sunday afternoon.

 

[luka]

It's almost as though they are some kind of metaphor for their respective countries...

you know you might just be onto something there

i'm interested in the subject of why so many prominent intellectuals converted to Catholicism around that time

Priggishness and Piety.

That sounds clever. I can go along with that.

www.dissensus.com

 

[luka]

the englishman with a limp gets the girl again. perhaps this is a good omen.

 

[jenks]

Corpsey, you should really go and experience Vespers and Benediction at the Brompton Oratory at 3pm on Sunday afternoon.

Of course vespers is an evening service not an afternoon one …if you want full ‘smells and bells’ then St Ethelreda’s in Ely Place at 11 on a Sunday is a good insight into a High Catholic Mass. Farm St, Soho Sq and Hoxton Sq all have busy Catholic congregations.

 

[luka]

dont do it corpsey, they'll lock you inside a bronze bull and light fires underneath it so you die in agony

 

[luka]

The Comedians, The Heart of the Matter and the Human Factor

which of these should i read next?

 

[jenks]

I like Heart of the Matter but then again I like almost all of Greene except the comic ones like Travels with My Aunt.

 

[jenks]

dont do it corpsey, they'll lock you inside a bronze bull and light fires underneath it so you die in agony

I think you might be confusing the Catholic Church with the Temple of Mithras, an easy mistake.

 

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Regular Mass & Service Times — The London Oratory

www.bromptonoratory.co.uk

 

[luka]

Regular Mass & Service Times — The London Oratory

www.bromptonoratory.co.uk

he does seem to have proved you wrong here Jenks. you will have to issue a formal apology.

 

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A confession will do.

 

[sus]