David Lloyd Dusenbury
@DusenburyDavid
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Old campaigner. Hamilton School & Department of Religion, University of Florida. @IJudgeNoOne is out now with Hurst & Oxford. Writing my next for Princeton.
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Joined July 2020
“I would like to think that I, the supposed reactionary, am far more radical than those who in their words proclaim themselves so radical today.” — Edmund Husserl in 1935, defending what he calls “European spiritual life”
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First Wilde: "People talk of secret vices. There are none. If a man has a vice it shows in the lines of his mouth, the moulding of his hands even." Then Freud: "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out every pore."
Struck by the frequency of the word “unconscious” & theme of unconscious drives & desires in Wilde’s “Picture of Dorian Gray” (1891), published nearly a decade before “The Interpretation of Dreams” (1899). Long before Freud’s Oedipus: Wilde’s Narcissus.
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The Vatican’s “repatriation” of Indigenous artifacts implies Catholicism is a white religion. But most Indigenous people in North America are Christian and many are Catholic. Is this not our Church? Are we not Catholics too? My latest for @Compactmag_
https://t.co/lM6r7y3yhO
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Beautiful & fascinating piece on indigenous American Christianity in Compact Mag. Absolutely worth reading — @AshleyAFrawley.
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“The saints, wounded with longing for God, unerringly drew near to him ….” Maximus, Ambiguum 10.10
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“They say that God & man are paradigms of each other, so that as much as man, enabled by love, has divinized himself for God, to that same extent God is humanized (anthrōpizesthai) for man by His love for humankind.” Maximus the Philosopher & Confessor, ca 635
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Very pleased to be headed back to Dumbarton Oaks this Friday to give a talk about Nemesius of Emesa’s sophisticated theory of providence, & how it influenced Maximus the Confessor —
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Delighted to see my Wall Street Journal piece in The New Criterion's "Week in Review" (Oct. 31). Anatoly Grablevsky deftly restates my conclusion: “It is faith-inflected romanticism that is so sorely lacking in our presentist, irony-poisoned culture."
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Villon contra Descartes, 200 years in advance — “I know all things save myself alone” Je cognois tout fors que moi mesme
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“Whitman rejoices in being Whitman …. he pretends to be conferring a philanthropic benefit on the race by recording his own complacency.” — like Pound, I am not a fan
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A shocking stanza from a French mystery play that shows the “outspokenness” of medieval literature: “Father Eternal, you are wrong & well should be shamed, Your well beloved son is dead & you sleep like a drunk.” E ben devetz avoir vergogne … E vous dormez comme un ivrogne.
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I am that terrible thing, the product of American culture …. Ezra Pound, 1911
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I believe in some parts of Nietzsche, I prefer to read him in sections; In my heart of hearts I suspect him of being the one modern Christian Ezra Pound, ca 1910
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As once the twelve storm-tossed on Galilee Put off the fear yet came not nigh Unto the holier mystery. So we bewildered, yet have trust in thee …. Pound, “Partenza di Venezia”, 1908
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Classic & Romantic: “both terms are snares, & one must not be confused by them”
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“I take it that the phrase ‘break with tradition’ is currently used to mean ‘desert the more obvious imbecilities of one’s immediate elders’ … Only the careful & critical mind will seek to know how much tradition inhered in the immediate elders.” Ezra Pound, 1917
“The tradition is a beauty which we preserve & not a set of fetters to bind us.” Ezra Pound, “The Tradition” (1913)
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