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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …
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But Catherine [of Siena] herself, in letter after letter, says we do not marry Christ with gold or silver but with the ring of Christ’s foreskin, given in the Circumcision and accompanied by pain and the shedding of blood.
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The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
"Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."
Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy …
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Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, …
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The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
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Solaris by Stanisław Lem
The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! Until now the only English …
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On Being Different by Merle Miller
Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the …
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Solaris by Stanisław Lem
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How to be both by Ali Smith
This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's …
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The European Book in the Twelfth Century by Erik Kwakkel, Rodney Thomson
The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe …
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How to be both by Ali Smith
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Faced with such ambiguous advice, many pious people in the later Middle Ages developed, along with a frenzied hunger for the host, an intense fear of receiving it. Margaret of Cortona, for example, pled frantically with her confessor for frequent communion but, when given the privilege by Christ, abstained out of terror at her unworthiness.
A work attributed to abbot Nilus (d. 430) adds to the idea that Adam's sin was gluttony the notion was that matter weighs down spirit:
It was the desire of food that spawned disobedience; it was the pleasure of taste that drove us from Paradise. Luxury food delights the gullet, but it breeds the worm of license that sleepeth not. An empty stomach prepares one for watching and prayer; the full one induces sleep.
this quote goes so hard; I've been telling all the cooks at my restaurant that we're driving people from Paradise and breeding the worm of license
By 1500, indeed, the model of the female saint, expressed both in popular veneration and in official canonizations, was in many ways the mirror image of society's notion of the witch. Each was thought to be possessed, whether by God or by Satan; each seemed able to read the minds and hearts of others with uncanny shrewdness; each was suspected of flying through the air, whether in saintly levitation or bilocation, or in a witches' Sabbath. Moreover, each bore mysterious wounds, whether stigmata or the marks of incubi, on her body.