#my dad opened his one published paper with an epigraph from frances the badger
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The unfortunate truth is that no matter how much you tout literature as representative of all human nature, all novels are written by a very specific kind of person: the novelist
#zena hitz lost in thought i love you. if you can't defend your claims about human goodness by any means other than a reference to a novel#i simply can't take them seriously!!#examples from novels are on thin ice but i'll allow it. but making a claim about All Humanity and then only backing it up#with a character from a 20th-century white western highbrow novel?#get out of here#this goes for rowan williams more than for anyone else i know. the anglicans are dreadfully prone#even certain kinds of book references would add more diversity#when was the last time you saw little house on the prairie brought up in a theological text? or elephant and piggie? i didn't think so#my dad opened his one published paper with an epigraph from frances the badger#and this gives me faith in our fundamental sympathy even if the strictures of the parent-child relationship#will never be overcome far enough for us to live it out together
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