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November 9, 2017
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 85
“Was there anything,” asked the young priest, “that kept you awake at nights?”
The old priest frowned and looked the young priest in the eye. He said, “The enemy wants your church more than most of your congregation.”
The young priest swallowed. “How did you overcome this?”
The old priest looked away. “When I realized the enemy wanted our Lord more than we do, and he still gave himself for us, I gave myself to them.”
November 6, 2017
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 84
He penned her name on a name tag and handed it to her.
“Our villain is a somniambulist,” he said.
She snickered. “A sleepwalker? Well that should be easy for once.”
“No, not a somnambulist – from somnus, sleep. A somniambulist. From somnium. Dream.”
“A… dreamwalker?”
He nodded.
“Aren’t we all? I mean big deal he walks around in his dreams.”
“Not his dreams,” he said. “Ours.”
She frowned. They stepped into the conference room.
“A dreamwalker,” he said, “can only be defeated by someone with abs...
November 2, 2017
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 83
“Don’t worry,” she said. “It’s temporary.”
“Temporary like a bad haircut?” he said. “Or temporary like the universe?”
“Um,” she said. “Temporary like a mortgage.”
He nodded and looked away. “It could be worse,” he said.
“You can say that again,” she said.
October 30, 2017
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 82
“You can say that again,” said Bones.
“Why?” said Spock.
“For emphasis.”
“Illogical. Repeating a phrase diminishes its impact. Minds are tuned to filter out repetition as background noise. If I repeat important information, then the unrepeated least important information will stand out resulting in the opposite of the desired effect.”
Bones frowned.
“Communication isn’t just for information exchange,” said Kirk in a big-brotherly tone. “It’s about humor, entertainment, enjoyment. Repetition i...
October 26, 2017
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 81
“What are you thinking about?” she asked.
He thought for a moment. “Nothing,” he said.
She put her glass down too hard. “I don’t think this is working. I feel like I’m just an afterthought with you.”
“Well,” he said. “Every thought comes after some other thought, so technically-”
“You just said you weren’t thinking about anything.”
He panicked.
“Er. No, I was thinking about nothing,” he said. “It’s quite different. I mean when you think about it, nothing is really something. It’s terrifying....
October 23, 2017
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 80
“The next one who talks loses,” he said.
The backseat became intensely quiet.
“I have deep respect for Asian culture,” he said after a moment.
“Okay,” she said. “Why?”
“Well, for example, this will work for a few minutes, but in Asia when you want some peace you send the kids to paint the fence or sit silently in the corner and you tell them you’re teaching them karate. You invent a whole philosophy to go with it and pair it with athletic training and before you know it your children have gro...
October 12, 2017
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 79
“I have a hard time relating. They talk about shoes,” she said. “I can’t get over the idea of feet.”
She looked at her feet.
“I mean, what’s the deal with feet?”
She looked up.
“You’re the only person I can say this to.”
“Thinking about ideas – it’s called transcendence,” he said. “One of the ways we reflect the image of God.”
She squinted and looked at her feet again.
“But God is also imminent,” he said. “He’s not just out there thinking big ideas. He’s in the moment. He enjoys the details....
October 9, 2017
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 78
She set down her luggage and closed the front door.
“What if the universe is built on relationship?” he said.
“Atom to atom. Force to force. Created to Creator.
“What if, one day, the created king and queen of creation broke relationship with the Creator.
“This universe, defined by relationship, would contort around the breech.
“Warped at its core, growing still but twisted now. Nothing would escape the effect. You. Me. Us.
“What if what we were is so much more glorious than what we are that...
October 5, 2017
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 77
She had crossed paths with a lot of oddballs, and here was another.
“New Kent Road,” he said. He caught her eye and smiled. “Telecommuting too?” he asked.
“How did you know?” The words were out before she could stop them. She clenched her jaw against any future betrayals by her own mouth.
“Comfortable clothes. Laptop. Coffee shop for an office.” He shrugged. “Just a guess.”
He sipped his cappuccino. She tapped her keyboard.
“Elephant and Castle,” he said.
She squinted. He smiled.
He sipped. S...
October 2, 2017
The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 76
He was clearly a fool, but he had a certain bearing she found attractive.
“Assumptions,” he pontificated, “are like flaws in a fine painting.”
She didn’t walk away.
“After you spot one you can’t stop seeing it, can you?”
She shook her head in agreement and looked where he was looking.
“It draws the eye every time you pass it by. It comes to consume your attention until you can’t stand it and you reject the whole canvas or-” He tilted his mask and sipped his drink. “You decide it’s an essentia...
