This is delightful. There is nothing better than a list. What are the days of creation other than God’s to-do list. Check. Good. Check. Good. Etc. Augustine said God created the entire world simultaneously but expressed it as a list for the sake of our ease in understanding.
If you need a fiction win, might I recommend The Feast by Margaret Kennedy (1949)? It's a seven deadly sins allegory, so a bit of a catalog (but you have to figure out who's who), and it's set on the Cornish coast in the summer. It got me out of a fiction slump earlier this year, fresh as a sea breeze!
Oh brother Chetwyn! What a prayer. I join you in asking the same. That is so encouraging, to know that such human thoughts and the way they are expressed, transcend centuries. Brothers indeed. I also noticed that Mary is sitting in the middle of that gorgeous illustration and that she has the scripture on her lap. I always forget that she was there, and it was with her that the others gathered, in that room, to pray and wait. I am going to read the Plough article you recommended too. Like you, the last few weeks have been a bit 'ho hum' as far as fiction goes and so I am re reading from my own shelves. Some months are indeed like that.
That's so funny, I thought the same thing about Mary in the upper room. I forget that the women were there as well. A beautiful reminder. And I'm glad you love Chetwyn's prayer. I related so much to it! Have thought about it a lot since seeing it in that manuscript.
This is delightful, Grace. You had me at the subtitle (I do love the university library catalogue) and I was intrigued to think of it as a literary device too.
This is delightful. There is nothing better than a list. What are the days of creation other than God’s to-do list. Check. Good. Check. Good. Etc. Augustine said God created the entire world simultaneously but expressed it as a list for the sake of our ease in understanding.
Augustine, man. He is just too good sometimes.
If you need a fiction win, might I recommend The Feast by Margaret Kennedy (1949)? It's a seven deadly sins allegory, so a bit of a catalog (but you have to figure out who's who), and it's set on the Cornish coast in the summer. It got me out of a fiction slump earlier this year, fresh as a sea breeze!
Agreed - I loved that book a couple of years ago. Must dig it out again as the perfect summer read (if we dare catalogue it in that way...)
I DO need a fiction win. This book has come across my radar before but I forgot about it. Will definitely track down a copy!
It was recently put back in print by McNally Editions, if that helps! :)
I have downloaded a sample on Kindle to peruse. Thank you.
Excellent! I think I had tried to track down a used copy a couple of years ago so that's great news.
Chaucer’s catalog of birds in “The Parlement of Foules” :-)
Yessss!
Oh brother Chetwyn! What a prayer. I join you in asking the same. That is so encouraging, to know that such human thoughts and the way they are expressed, transcend centuries. Brothers indeed. I also noticed that Mary is sitting in the middle of that gorgeous illustration and that she has the scripture on her lap. I always forget that she was there, and it was with her that the others gathered, in that room, to pray and wait. I am going to read the Plough article you recommended too. Like you, the last few weeks have been a bit 'ho hum' as far as fiction goes and so I am re reading from my own shelves. Some months are indeed like that.
That's so funny, I thought the same thing about Mary in the upper room. I forget that the women were there as well. A beautiful reminder. And I'm glad you love Chetwyn's prayer. I related so much to it! Have thought about it a lot since seeing it in that manuscript.
Old English catalogue poems in the Exeter Book
So good!
This beautiful meditation is a gift to me today. Thank you, Grace!
Thank you for your kind words!
This is delightful, Grace. You had me at the subtitle (I do love the university library catalogue) and I was intrigued to think of it as a literary device too.
Another wonderful catalog, indeed!