Here’s another alphabet list that helped me fall back to sleep last night after being woke up by neighbors arguing. This one’s of people I never met who I would love to have spent time with having long ongoing conversations.
ASSISI, FRANCIS OF
BEHAN, BRENDAN
CENDRARS, BLAISE
DOLPHY, ERIC
EINSTEIN, ALBERT
FRANKLIN, BEN
GELLHORN, MARTHA
HESSE, EVA
IVES, CHARLES
JEFFERSON, THOMAS
KING, MARTIN LUTHER
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM
MILLER, LEE
NAZARETH, JESUS OF
O’HARA, FRANK
PARKER, CHARLIE
QUINN, ANTHONY
ROBINSON, JACKIE
SMITH, DAVID
TSE (OR TZU), LAO
UNITAS, JOHNNY (maybe not a lot of conversation, but I’d still love to have met him)
VOLTAIRE
WHITMAN, WALT
XXIII, POPE JOHN (hey that’s the way his name was written, my favorite pope and a great human)
YEOH, MICHELLE
ZAPPA, FRANK
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Pope John XX111, not surprisingly, is my least favorite of recent pontiffs. The changes that he instituted with the Second Vatican Council, put the church on a downward spiral from which it has not recovered, the libertine attitude it engendered attracted fewer and less qualified priests. I suspect much of the abuse in the church has its root in the attitudes that came out of the Council. Even the loss of the Latin Mass had its consequences. The “Mystery of the Cathedral” as Joseph Campbell described, was lost. Latin lost popularity as a subject worthy of study, which affected the study of the Classics and of Ancient History. Since Latin is the root of the Romance languages, Language study also suffered.
I believe Benedict XV1 has the possibility greatness, if he can pull of the civilizing of Islam. I may even attend a mass, if the Latin variety comes this way.
Nice idea for a post.
I responded to you by the way on my blog.
Are you famous? Your name rings a bell.
I know the names I'd start with:
Augustine
Martin Luther
Jesus
Then,
Philippe Soupault
Henry JM Levet
Pierre Klossowski
Very fun idea to think about. It's so evocative. I will post about it in about three daze.
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