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| Pope Benedict is onto this, along with
Francis Cardinal George of Chicago, and liturgical scholars such as
Aidan Nichols, OP, Monsignor Peter Elliott, Stratford Caldecott of the
Center for Faith and Culture in Oxford, and Alcuin Reid, OSB. Salting his book with quotes and bon mots from, among others,
Thomas Merton, Henry David Thoreau, Dorothy Day, Alcuin, Sophocles
Publius Sirius, Emily Dickinson, and Groucho Marx, Sullivan eschews a
whimsical, half-baked approach to not being rich in favor of practical,
hard-nosed advice for those seeking to ward off the infamy of unbridled
prosperity. That imaginative chap Charlemagne (forward-looking Holy Roman
Emperor) stirred things up in the 9th century when Alcuin of York came
up with a system of positurae at the ends of sentences (including one of
the earliest question marks), but to be honest western systems of
punctuation were damned unsatisfactory for the next five hundred years
until one man--one fabulous Venetian printer--finally wrestled with the
issue and pinned it to the mat. |
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