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August 17, 2005
Unquiet Mourning
I slept poorly, waking from a nightmare early in the morning (it involved a massacre, an image presumably evoked by Br. Roger’s murder). I’ve had a heap of financial details to square away.
Edward Tufte publicizes Charles Joseph Minard’s graph of Napoleon’s 1812 campaign in Russia as “the best statistical graphic ever drawn”; it displays the size of Napoleon’s army, the army’s location in Europe, the passage of time, and the temperature, all in a single extremely lucid presentation. That chart reminds me of our family finances — as the family disperses to various locations, supply lines get drawn thinner, and winter is coming on. We’re not in bad shape, but it’s all so darn complicated.
So in order to distract myself from visions of the Berezina River, I took the “Which Harry Potter character are you? Myers-Briggs quiz ” as much to see whether a short online quiz would return the same result that the longer, more elaborate version typically gives for me. Sure enough, it did: INFP, in this case supposedly Remus Lupin (the werewolf-Defense Against the Dark Arts professor of Prisoner of Azkaban, with whom I actually felt a strong pang of sympathy throughout).
Someday, I’ll have to take the Which Blogging Archetype Are You? quiz again, to find out if I’ve become myself after an interval of being David Weinberger.
Oh, and although we ran into a bit of a snag relative to Volume Three (Christ Church sent volume three of the full ten-volume Dogmatics, rather than volume three of the shorter Theological Outlines), I posted Chapter Eighteen (“The Properties of Christ”) of Theological Outlines. (No, he doesn’t always get Boardwalk and Park Place.) Anyone with a line on Volume Three, second edition, of the Theological Outlines, please let me know; otherwise, we’ll have to use the first edition, which Hall revised substantially for the second edition (unless the copyright holders of the third edition want to permit us to post that version).
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And I am somehow you! lol
Posted by: Mark at August 17, 2005 01:41 PM
Everytime you refer to the Theological Outlines, it reminds me to check them out. I've enjoyed reading them -- and the ease in accessing them.
Just for grins, I did a search through all the old book on-line searches to see if I could find that particular volume. The only place I found that edition was at the Library of Congress in DC. But alas, no bookstores.
Posted by: Don at August 17, 2005 03:27 PM
I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your friend, especially in such a brutal way.
Lupin is my favorite character in the movies. I did love him in the book too, but it was the actor that really clinched it for me.
Posted by: Anthony Paul Smith at August 17, 2005 11:14 PM
Yipes, I got INTP which corresponds to He Who Must Not Be Named.
Posted by: Caelius Spinator at August 18, 2005 11:53 PM
