danielhanlon
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11 months ago
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on: Evelyn Waugh’s Decadent Redemption
How unexpected - beautifully written! It's almost surprising that the quoted passages are so familiar - I hadn't realised how affecting they are. Whilst loving the book I can't consider Brideshead Revisited without thinking of the wonderful 1980s Granada TV adaptation. I didn't dare watch the more recent film, lest it spoil the tableaux of the original.
danielhanlon
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6 years ago
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on: Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit
Thanks, that’s interesting. Would that, in your experience, also tally with what the faithful think they’re contributing to? I live in the UK and anecdotally would say that here it’s traditionally understood to be a collection for the Pope to be used as he sees fit.
danielhanlon
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6 years ago
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on: Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit
How odd to make out that this is irregular... it’s called Peter’s Pence as in collecting for the chair of St. Peter, i.e. the Pope. It’s the one collection that’s specifically for that, as opposed to countless other Catholic charities.
danielhanlon
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7 years ago
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on: A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas
Strange-the pronunciation changes that she demonstrates with "hand" seem to be bringing the accent closer to RP English!
