The great Pippa’s table grace (we always assign the youngest of us to pray; Nate’s long-time prayer was “Thank you God, and you can be our friend”) is simply, “Thank you, God, for food.”
Well, I jst want to say “Thank you, God, for Fred Clark.” I wish I’d written that critical anatomy of Father Brown, if only for the brilliant lines, “The detective-priest accepts humanity's moral fallibility, but he cannot accept that our capacity for thinking and, especially, for knowing is similarly fallible and finite. (In this respect, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe may be a worse detective, but a better theologian and priest, than Father Brown.),” and “ certainty were really so available, after all, we would have no need for detectives. Or for priests.”
But I specially can’t wait to spring on Trevor the observation that “that [Bechtel] fellow rejects papal infallibility — such thoughts always lead to murder. . . ”
Posted by AKMA at May 22, 2003 03:41 PM | TrackBackactually i'm pretty sure that was josiah's...
Posted by: nathaniel at May 22, 2003 04:15 PMyup. Nate's right. It was Si.
Posted by: Margaret at May 22, 2003 06:03 PMAre you subscribed to Slacktivist Premium or something? My browsers can't find such a post. I'd very much like to see it - I read Father Brown first when I was young and naive enough to miss the extent of the propaganda, and now that I am old and devious I read them instead for the (pre-)echoes of Borges.
Posted by: des at May 23, 2003 07:53 AMlike des, i can't find the post.
is this the much vaunted analogy to papal infallibility?
its simplynotbeingthereness?
Trevor
I don’t know what’s up with FC’s permalinks, but look for the second posting of May 18, I think. . .
Posted by: AKMA at May 23, 2003 11:22 PM