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I forgot how deep this book is. There’s also a lot about fishing (shocking I know) which makes me want to fish. It’s so hard to put words to what happens during fly fishing but he explains it perfectly.

A book written by the son of a Presbyterian minister about fishing, but secretly about faith (perhaps unintentionally?). It’s going to be fun to wade through the Presbyterian view of man, nature and grace. I have a feeling he is going to argue for Catholic principles unintentionally😁.

Second time reading this book. First time I read it was freshman year. This is the book that got me back into reading!

Me: “I don’t like having multiple books open at once”

…also me: *has multiple books open at once*

@owen

If you’re not a Christian reading this book you must think Dante is evil for writing this😂😂

I believe in God more. Also in Hell more. I think this book is Divinely inspired. Not like the Scriptures, but less than the book of Jubilees or something akin to it.

Having a Catholic editor/translator makes all the difference in the world! They draw from the same font and realize they are ordered towards the same end

“The inferno is not, finally, a poem about wickedness and punishment, but about beautify and love: the terrible beauty of God which should arouse in man the most ardent love, and the ruin of beauty which the soul becomes when it turns that love elsewhere.”

AGGGHHHHH

I’m lost. I’m almost starting to feel bad for this guy which is concerning.

I wonder how many lists I’m on

I am one page in and I am hooked. There was more analysis of a person’s thoughts in one paragraph than most authors do in an entire book. I hope I can trust the narrator but I doubt I’ll be able to. I’m very excited.

I haven’t touched this book in a year. I’m going to read a different translation for Lent with Owen. So this is gonna be closed and DNF-ed.

This book is actually insane. Lewis is so sharp it’s unreal. It makes me angry he never became Catholic 😂

A lot of stuff about time that was cool but way over my head. Now we’re talking about creation. He’s had some really interesting interpretations that in some senses line up with modern science very well…and others that don’t, ha!

“But I was like someone who has had the experience of a bad physician and therefore fears to trust himself to a good one…” Book 6 Chapter 4.

You’ve tried all of the things of the world and they couldn’t satisfy you. So people tell you God will satisfy you, but nothing else has. So you doubt, and you refuse the medicine which will heal, that which will truly satisfy. Give God a chance.

ALL OF BOOK 4 CHAPTER 12 IS SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WRITING IVE EVER READ! IDK WHAT THE LATIN SAYS, IM SURE ITS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE ENGLISH BUT THIS TRANSLATOR DESERVES AN AWARD! IT SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!

“But our life came down here below. He bore our death and slew it, through the great abundance of his own life. And he thundered his voice calling us to return to him that secret place from whence he came to us, first into the Virgin’s womb (where he espoused human flesh, so that it might not be forever mortal) and from there coming forth like a bridegroom from his chamber and rejoiced…”