Sitaram
01-24-2005, 06:44 AM
As a child, I vividly remember the title of one book in the headboard bookshelf of my mother's bed: "A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill," though I never once took it down and opened it.
I took it for granted that every bed, everywhere in the world must have a bookshelf with sliding doors built into the headboard.
I just now searched on google and found this interesting quotation:
http://www.bartleby.com/66/88/30588.html
QUOTATION: Mere human beings can’t afford to be fanatical about anything.... Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
ATTRIBUTION: Storm Jameson (1891–1986), British novelist. Vancura, in A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill, ch. 28 (1957).
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I have suddenly had another memory, regarding that headboard bookshelf on the bed. There was a small pocket bible there, leather bound, printed on ultra thin India paper.
When I was 13, I became severly depressed and frightened with the thought that something was wrong with my eyes, and that I would go blind (it turned out that there was nothing wrong, and my vision is normal.)
I had never been brought to a church even once. My only exposure to religion was television, with Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, (I was always sad that this ment no cartoons), "Lamp unto my Feet", "The Guiding Light", and the usual fare at Christmas and Easter times.
I was so desparate, that I made a vow to read the Bible cover to cover, if only my vision would be spared.
I grabed that little bible, with its tiny print, and opened to the Gospel of Matthew (why I chose to start there, I do not remember.)
I was rather horrified by the first several pages, by the harshness and anger in the words "you generation of vipers." I stopped reading after several pages and did not fulfill my vow until years later, in my 20's when I read the Bible cover to cover for reasons other than a desired miracle.
I took it for granted that every bed, everywhere in the world must have a bookshelf with sliding doors built into the headboard.
I just now searched on google and found this interesting quotation:
http://www.bartleby.com/66/88/30588.html
QUOTATION: Mere human beings can’t afford to be fanatical about anything.... Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
ATTRIBUTION: Storm Jameson (1891–1986), British novelist. Vancura, in A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill, ch. 28 (1957).
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I have suddenly had another memory, regarding that headboard bookshelf on the bed. There was a small pocket bible there, leather bound, printed on ultra thin India paper.
When I was 13, I became severly depressed and frightened with the thought that something was wrong with my eyes, and that I would go blind (it turned out that there was nothing wrong, and my vision is normal.)
I had never been brought to a church even once. My only exposure to religion was television, with Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, (I was always sad that this ment no cartoons), "Lamp unto my Feet", "The Guiding Light", and the usual fare at Christmas and Easter times.
I was so desparate, that I made a vow to read the Bible cover to cover, if only my vision would be spared.
I grabed that little bible, with its tiny print, and opened to the Gospel of Matthew (why I chose to start there, I do not remember.)
I was rather horrified by the first several pages, by the harshness and anger in the words "you generation of vipers." I stopped reading after several pages and did not fulfill my vow until years later, in my 20's when I read the Bible cover to cover for reasons other than a desired miracle.