Does anybody else get a kick out of that annual Arby's
commercial? It's approaching noon, so not only does this song
bring nostalgia but actual hunger. My coworkers went to the
cafeteria without me today, apparently, and I'm too stubborn at the
moment to brave the two minute walk Outside to get there. Oh, the
trials and tribulations.
I'm reading this book. The prose is haunting and very
difficult. The words themselves go every which way in a drugged
and fervent sort of way, but harder still is the sentiment of the
stuff. In the first few chapters, we watch a young fictionalized
Jesus being called by God and denying that call. He just wants
God to leave him alone. It's a strange and terrible way to look
at the humanity of Jesus. What I like most about the book so far
is the Prologue. Christian or not, you have to feel something for
an author who writes with such reverence. What first struck me
was Kazantzakis's talking about a "nostalgia" for God. This is
the very word I've used since youth to describe that yearning feeling,
that thing that C.S. Lewis calls "joy." Whatever comes of the
book, I'm happy to have read someone else's experience that in so many
ways comes close to my own. Not an experience really, but a
feeling.
And so I go back to being hungry. I'm hungry for food, and I'm
hungry to get my desk and file cabinet up the stairs and put all my
books in my shelves, and I'm hungry to read more and think more, to
pray and love more, and to grow spiritually, too.
I'll still watch The O.C. this week and gently lament that House is
skipping a week. Sadly, Carey, I haven't seen more than fifteen
minutes of Grey's Anatomy or heard of that other show you
mentioned. Maybe when I get cable this Christmas, I'll DVR all
the ABC shows that are all the hoopla. Indeed!
On today's agenda - wait for the boss to come pick up a file, wait on
Father Chris and a couple of other admin. ladies to give me some input
on the Prayer Service that I get to write a program for ASAP, leave
when I can, remember to stop at the Post Office for a change of address
form, eat lunch, finish emptying the mothership's behemoth-car and
finish putting the townhouse in order, return behemoth to the
mothership, dinner and/or grocery shopping, possibly order laptop if
dinner is at mum's.
And the peasants rejoice!
Comments (20)
I remember the movie based on that book, and the wild controversy it started. Such blasphemy, everyone thought! But I saw it as an interesting interpretation of Christ's story. I've never read the book, but I might someday.
RYC: I love that you save the broccoli tops for your husband. I do the same for my husband, because he doesn't like the stems. That's love for you!
I always dig the way you talk about books.
And I will rejoice!
And oh yeah, I can see a man rejecting G-d's call--it's a big thing, having to give up life, pleasure, etc.
i think Anthony Burgess [of Clockwork Orange fame] wrote a book in which he showed JC as married...and it's amazing how the biblehumpers scream persecution when THEY been in the driver's seat for almost 1700 years
Didn't know Arby's still existed
I need some ideas. Mind coming by and answering my question?
are the peasants more likely to be rejoicing or revolting?
Wow, nice writing. Maybe it's been a while, and maybe you've gotten even better. The last half was that familiar fun way you have.
I have never been closer to God. I have learned much in the last couple months; things Biblical, things herbal, things about love. Oh, and then things about the stock market, which is what I do every morning.
This Christmas season will be brand new. It's a different kind of year. Happy Holidays, sweet one.
I just read all that and thought you would read it and see that I have not written anything in a very long time. I don't write anymore and it shows. That's okay.
My mountain hugs you back...can you feel it? So, is the book the one the movie was based on?
huzzah
sincerely
one hungry peasant