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		<title>If you can stay awake&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Duvall&#8217;s The Apostle is long. And at times it felt especially long, and my eyes grew as heavy as those of Eutychus (see Acts 20:9). Still, the movie is worth enduring for its portrait of believers. These Christians are not treated in any sentimental way—they are far from perfect; nor are they made a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-lundgaards.com/?p=1909</link>
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		<title>Dinner and a movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea why, but for decades I have wanted to watch My Dinner with Andre. I finally got around to it—and still I really don&#8217;t know why I wanted to watch it for so long. I have to say that I&#8217;m glad no one else watched it with me, because for (at least) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-lundgaards.com/?p=1898</link>
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		<title>Why are you shouting?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For he who makes for himself a fragile truth (such as preferring freedom to strict discipline, or discipline to freedom), since he fails to master the vagaries of a language whose words rebuff each other—such a man boils with rage when someone ventures to contradict him. If you shout loudly, it is because, your own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-lundgaards.com/?p=1894</link>
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		<title>Who do you love?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I rescue you from the waves of the sea, I love you the better for this, being now responsible for your life. Or if I have watched over you and healed you when you were sick; or if it so happens that you were a trusty old servitor, helpful as a lamp; or even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-lundgaards.com/?p=1889</link>
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		<title>Still editing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have written my poem. All that remains to do is correct it.&#8221; But my father waxed wroth. &#8220;So you write your poem first, and then correct it! But what is writing but correcting? What is the sculptor doing, if not correcting? Have you watched him modelling the clay? Correction by correction the face emerges; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-lundgaards.com/?p=1885</link>
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		<title>Unfinished business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an unfortunate thing to confess, but I seem to identify a little too much with a few of the more pathetic aspects of some of Paul Giamatti&#8217;s characters. And perhaps it was unfortunate that that very flaw of mine tempted me to watch Cold Souls, in which the actor Paul Giamatti plays a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-lundgaards.com/?p=1880</link>
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		<title>A huddle of stones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And if each man chooses the site of the temple for himself, and places his stone wherever he thinks fit, you will never see a temple, only a huddle of stones. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands]]></description>
		<link>http://the-lundgaards.com/?p=1878</link>
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		<title>Silence deep as the sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For it is not the man we see, with his sorry husk of flesh and his farrago of ideas, who weighs in the scale of things; it is his soul, more or less vast as may be, with its climates and its mountain ranges, its oases of silence, its flowery slopes and melting snows and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-lundgaards.com/?p=1872</link>
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		<title>Accepting is not receiving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But, mark my words, the man who cannot see that receiving is very different from accepting is blind indeed. Receiving is, above all, a gift, the gift of oneself, and I could not call him a miser who refuses to ruin himself with presents; the miser is one who bestows not the light of his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-lundgaards.com/?p=1867</link>
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		<title>Zero-sum love?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; to the mind of the majority, whatever is given in one place is stolen from elsewhere; it is their dealings in the marketplace and their forgetfulness of God that have thus shaped their minds. Yet, in reality, what you give does not lessen your store; far otherwise, it augments for you the riches you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-lundgaards.com/?p=1861</link>
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