S. P. Cooper 🍋
@Prof_Cooper
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Ph.D., FRSA. Arthuriana, chivalry, kingship. Formerly @MadisonProgram @Princeton. VP @CourtlyLitNA. Host @CritReadings. Senior Editor @EuroConMag.
Joined September 2012
Horatio John Cooper was born at 00:38 on 21 May. Mum and baby are doing very well! (Daddy is feeling a bit faint.).
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I have a short Christmas story, as Advent approaches:. When I was six or seven years old, my parents bought a house. We had been relatively poor, moving from place to place every year: my father was a floor-layer and my mother had been an Avon lady. But then my mother got a
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To-day, my wife's ultrasound showed an irregular heartbeat for the baby. We ask that, in your charity, you pray this clears up (as the doctors are hopeful it might). Thank you all ever so much, in advance.
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Friends, I have had no income since 14 September and we have had to borrow money from family members in order to afford groceries and pay our mortgage. This can’t go on much longer. No charity is desired, except for your prayers. For those, you have our thanks. 🙏🏻.
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No it doesn't "preserve the poem's essence." A poem's essence is its language, not one literal rendering of its narrative content. This is "The Heresy of Paraphrase" in action, advanced by people whose intelligence in one field convinces them that they possess mastery in others.
Holy Moly! Just asked #ChatGPT to modernize & condense Shelley’s “Ozymandias”—it nailed it! Mind-blowing how it preserves the poem’s essence in so few words. The future of AI-driven language is here. #AI #NLP #poetry
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My goodness!.I am overwhelmed by how this has resonated with people from all the world over. Thank you all ever so much for your kind words, sentiments, and tidings of the season, and may God bless you all!.
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Friends, my family needs your prayers. I have been chasing leads and doing my best to find a position for a year now without success. We are really up against it. The possibility that we will lose our house is a constant source of all-consuming anxiety; our savings is almost.
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Things are very difficult right now. Mrs. C's latest test results that she might need surgery. I can't seem to put together a stable career, and there's just no margin left. Please pray for us.
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No more philosophy, theology, French, or German. But good news—all the administrative roles are safe! It might even be possible to hire some more administrators! Phew!.
UNC Asheville chancellor announces academic department cuts | Raleigh News & Observer
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Have just received a bit good news via e-mail. Thank you all for your prayers! They do work!!.
Friends, I have had no income since 14 September and we have had to borrow money from family members in order to afford groceries and pay our mortgage. This can’t go on much longer. No charity is desired, except for your prayers. For those, you have our thanks. 🙏🏻.
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My father died on this day four years ago. If, in your charity, you might remember him in your prayers to-day, I should be ever so grateful. May God bless you!.
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It's going to be rather confusing referring to it as the 'of England'.
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Dear people chatting on my viral post: please, be excellent to each other.
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*Extremely* good news from today's ultrasound: no heart issues detected. Everything is normal. Thank you all so much for your prayers!!.
To-day, my wife's ultrasound showed an irregular heartbeat for the baby. We ask that, in your charity, you pray this clears up (as the doctors are hopeful it might). Thank you all ever so much, in advance.
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I should be very grateful if, in your charity, you might please remember my father, Phillip, in your prayers. He died on 1 May, three years ago. I miss him ever so much. Thank you. 🙏🏻.
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At the hospital with Mrs. C where baby Jack seems to be on the way.
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I have a cardiac MRI this morning. It has been about six months since the last one, which confirmed all sorts of unhappy things. I am praying for a much better result this time!.
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Next spring, please God, there will be another little Cooper to take on the sacred family duties of eating lemons, playing Cricket, and playing the organ.
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I hope that you will join with me in praying for the innocent victims of war, and especially for the children brutalised by war. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
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I should be grateful if, in your charity, you would pray for the repose of my aunt Ramona, who died today at her family home in West Virginia.
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Even better update to-day; not only cancer-free, but no surgery needed as well. Thank you all for your prayers, and thanks be to God!.
Thank you to everyone who has been praying for my stepfather. It has been an arduous month, and he has been in the hospital several times, and really quite ill, but the latest test results are nothing short of a prayer come true. Not cancer, despite that being the original.
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Prayers up for the best of Tweetmen: that he may suffer no ill from being doxxed, and that those who wish him harm may see their schemes come to ruin.
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Good King Wenceslas looked out,.On the Feast of Stephen…
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I should be grateful if, in your charity, you would pray for my aunt, gravely ill with cancer, and my brother-in-law, seriously ill with kidney failure, both of whom are in hospital down at U of MI. Thank you, and may God bless you.
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Really excellent result today. Thank you so much for your prayers!
I have a cardiac MRI this morning. It has been about six months since the last one, which confirmed all sorts of unhappy things. I am praying for a much better result this time!.
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To-day, I received form rejection letters from the two last applications I had outstanding: both at community colleges. I was employed at one for nearly ten years, ending as full-time faculty. Neither offered me an interview.
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Very positive news today: the roofing company sent a man out who admitted that it hadn't been done correctly, and that they will fix everything under warranty at no cost. Thanks be to God!.
Terrible news from the inspector in re. the roof and crawlspace today. Moisture, mold, etc. Insurance probably won't cover the fortune it will cost to fix, and we haven't got a bean. One entertains fantasies of fleeing into the woods to live atop a tree.
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I think this is one of the more important things that I have written—some reflections On Advancing a Conservative Aesthetics, which have grown out of my experiences over the past year:.
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An impromptu family portrait at the wedding, taken in front of the backdrop they had set up. Absolutely impossible getting the boys to remain still even for a moment, but it still came out alright (if a bit silly).
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As I turn to the task of cleaning out my library, the time has come for me to accept that my teaching career is almost certainly at an end. I'm profoundly grateful to have met so many truly brilliant and incredibly gracious people—a good number of whom I now consider some of my.
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I am pleased to share that my article, "Guilt, Shame, and Truth in Malory's Le Morte Darthur", has been accepted for publication in the next volume of Encomia.
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10 things I like that everyone else should like:.1. Opera.2. Cricket.3. Arthurian Literature.4. Pre-XXth c. Poetry.5. Tea.6. Organ Music.7. The Latin Mass.8. Mystery Novels.9. The Works of Tolkien.10. Summer.
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Not the best possible result from yesterday‘s echocardiogram. I must go in for a cardiac MRI. Your prayers, as always, are appreciated.
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A world without people would not be some kind of great ‘ecological achievement’: it would be completely meaningless, because only *people* value such things (and only some people, at that), and they wouldn’t exist.
we once considered suicidal ideation a severe mental illness. now it's celebrated in the pages of our most storied literary magazines.
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Today would have been my father's 85th birthday. I should be very grateful if you would remember him in your prayers; and may God bless you for your charity. 🙏🏻.
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Ahead of Saturday's Christmas party, my wife found a dining room table set at the local thrift store. So we have finally replaced the table with the broken leg that was left by the previous homeowner!
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Absolutely overwhelmed, as ever, by all the kind replies and prayers. Thank you all ever so much. If social media has done anything good, it is by helping to join us together in prayer.
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Hamlet is one of those great works that contains multitudes. I have read it and seen it more times than I can count, and yet there is always something new, something fascinating. It is a country both familiar and perpetually undiscovered.
CR Episode 194: Hamlet, Act II.
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As a new Assistant Editor, I have one goal for the magazine, one lofty target at which to aim: the replacement of the word 'fall' (from the poetic cliché 'the fall of the leaf') with the word 'autumn'. I have a year to make my case. Dream big!.
In today's post, this marvelous issue of @EuroConOfficial, beautifully laid out with an eye to aesthetic detail on every page, touching on one vital issue after another: political, social, cultural, spiritual.
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@yuanyi_z Throwing my copy of Narnia to the floor, bellowing, 'Kings and Queens don't come from another world! That's not how royal succession works!'.
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@bernardtjoy Day-Lewis did a remarkable job but it is unlikely that anyone will probably ever best Paul Giamatti as John Adams. An absolute tour de force performance. Impossibly good.
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Please pray for the child who died in this afternoon's storm, and for the bereaved family. Lord, have mercy. 🙏🏻.
I’m at 7 Mile and Middlebelt once a week. Tragedy can hit close to home. A 2-year-old died in this tornado.
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Cleaned the organ coupler rods! The depth of sound when they are on doesn't really come through on my phone, but here's a bit of fun just the same.
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In your charity, please pray for the repose of both my aunt Ramona and my aunt Vicky, and for the comfort of their families.
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@aelfred_D I love that The Atlantic can't quite work out something 'just being funny.' It's a totally foreign concept to them.
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Today, it was my keen pleasure to introduce @d_n_keane to this poem, which I think might be the best poem written since the turn of the century.
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At my doctor appointment in mid-January, the scale said 216 pounds. This morning, 188. I'm ever so pleased when it drops down below another 10. So I allow myself a little thrill of accomplishment; but onward.
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God bless the memory of John Quincy Adams for this act, which gave us our parish church.
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Despite a painful and aggravating corneal abrasion, I am in good spirits, and I wish everyone the very best of Easters! Christus resurrexit!.
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When I was reading for my qualifying exams, an advisor said to me, "Don't think of 'all the reading you have to do,' but rather about how great it is that your job right now is just to read wonderful things. You may never have that again.". I've never forgotten her advice.
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Please pray for my stepfather, who is going to hospital, rather serious. Thank you. 🙏🏻.
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From 15-20% in March up to 40-45% today (50% is normal)! Thanks be to God!.
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In your charity, please pray for Fr. Goyo. 🙏🏻.
The news I feared is here. I have a big cancerous tumor. They don’t know if they can operate or even shrink. So I guess my next appointment will determine what my future is. I am at peace and at the same time scared. I pray for all who hear the cancer news for first time. Not fun.
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Counterpoint: all of the non-herditary peers should be removed fron the House of Lords, instead.
All remaining hereditary peers will be removed from the House of Lords next summer, ministers announced as they said the “accident of birth” should not give people the right to make laws. Should hereditary peers be removed from the House of Lords? . More:
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This was my father's favourite piece of music. It always brought him to tears; and tonight is the first time since he died that I have been able to bring myself to play it. Please pray for him and for me.
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Thank you all ever so much for your extraordinarily kind replies, and especially for your prayers. My father died on the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. His whole life, he worked hard—harder than anyone I've ever known, and right to the end, too.
I should be very grateful if, in your charity, you might please remember my father, Phillip, in your prayers. He died on 1 May, three years ago. I miss him ever so much. Thank you. 🙏🏻.
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Sometimes, I think, “Well, maybe I should just get a J.D. as well.” . But then I look around the library at the books, the organ, and the piano. I look out the window at the trees and the birds, and I sip my tea, and I laugh and laugh and laugh.
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Just had my last electrocardiology appointment. Got the big thumbs-up, no need to more appointments with him unless something changes!.
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My step-father is in the hospital ICU with some heart-related issues. If, in charity, you would remember him in your prayers, my family would be very grateful. Thank you. 🙏🏻.
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🙏🏻 We are all home sick and unable to be at Mass today, if you might offer a prayer for our recovery. Thank you!.
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Evil, diabolical, satanic bastards.
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We should be grateful of your prayers for the redoubtable Mrs. C, who is in the process of changing jobs.
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To be clear, I don't mean the OP, who is having a lark! I mean our techbrain AI-pushing overlords, well-meaning and maleficent alike.
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On my way to get my follow-up echocardiogram. This will be the first time since the diagnosis back in March. Hoping for some more positive results!.
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Oh Lord, have mercy. For pity's sake, have mercy upon your people.
Together we mourn the loss of Spencer Vermeule and pray for his family, loved ones and all those who are impacted by his passing.
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My "Coming soon!" update:.A scholarly article in Encomia;.Essays in Fare Forward, The American Conservative, and The European Conservative, with one in progress for Athwart;.And a book chapter in a university press volume on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight!.
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The students use AI to do the work. The faculty use AI to create and grade the work. The admin want AI to replace everyone but themselves. It's time to shut the whole thing down. No one involved seems to care about the actual process of human education.
The future of higher education, ladies and gentlemen.
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Born on this date, Conrad Aiken (5 August 1889 – 17 August 1973). When Aiken was 11 years old, his father murdered his mother and then committed suicide. Moments later, Aiken entered the room and discovered what had happened. Years later, he wrote this poem.
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Happy 93rd Birthday to-day to John Williams, surely by now the greatest film composer of all time. We should count ourselves lucky to live in his era and to be the first people to experience his work.
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Heartening to know that even this, too, shall pass, and Notre Dame will be restored in glory.
On this day five years ago . a tragic symbol of the suffering and destruction of our age.
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Things are moving again, and there is more progress today!.We are hoping that, by the end of the year, this period of impecunity will be behind us, although it will take us a while to rebuild our safety net. Thank you all for your continued prayers!.
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There was never a point when it wasn’t justified. 😎.
At what point is the Catholic Church justified in petitioning to take back these medieval cathedrals?.
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Not a bad place to work of an afternoon, all things considered.
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Sitting in an ER waiting room with Mrs. C, trying to keep spirits up. It has been a challenging week.
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Some good updates, with many thanks for your prayers!.- Mrs. C had her ultrasound, and Baby C is normal and doing well at 7 weeks!.- My echo yesterday showed 45-50% (50 is about normal), which is really good!.- I'm feeling mostly better (98%), and Mrs. C is recovering (no fever)!.
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Today is my first column in @EuroConOfficial!. What does Malory's Holy Grail suggest about the Common Good?.
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Mrs. C is running a fever again (102+), so tomorrow morning we are going to go to the hospital. In your charity, please keep her in your prayers. Thank you. 🙏🏻.
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There should be no delay—not even the '7 second industry standard' delay—for a Presidential debate. If one of the candidates utters a profanity, or lies, or falls over, or glitches out, it should be able to be seen and discussed by absolutely every single voter.
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I have sprung Mrs. C from the hospital, and she is now recovering on a regimen of antibiotics and strict bed rest at home. Thank you all for your prayers!.
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The unchosen limits of human existence are not an evil to be transcended; they are what make us human. Our negotiation of them unites us across all places and times. They are the outline of humanity's shape. Without them, one cannot be human—nor anything, for that matter.
What is the fork to which President @nayibbukele refers? In my view, it is between two very different projects for political life. One is an endless quest for individual liberation from all unchosen constraints —customary, social, even biological. The other is the project of.
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@ellipsisTG But it was written before 1970! Who now can fathom the impenetrable mystery of its language?.
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Happy 337th birthday to-day to Alexander Pope (21 May 1688–30 May 1744), Catholic Englishman, brilliant critic, and author of The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock, and the most magnificent translations of Homer. May his works endure forever!
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@GrayConnolly ‘It’s a gross failure of design that my very minority view can’t be imposed upon the nation’s founding document!’. These people are really telling on themselves, especially given all their jaw about “attacks on democracy“.
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The church was absolutely packed today for Palm Sunday. Very gratifying!.
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A very kind fellow who plays in a band has generously given his late father’s organ to my family. It is in exceptional condition and will be delivered on Wednesday. May God bless him abundantly for his extraordinary generosity!. The boys are beside themselves with excitement!
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