#thomas browne

[lindahall]

Paul Nash – Scientist of the Day

Paul Nash, an English landscape artist, was born on May 11, 1889, in Kensington in London.

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[violentdelightsproductions]

Madison Montgomery x Thomas Brown - Nymphetamine ( American Horror Stories AU)

Bared on your tomb I'm a prayer for your loneliness And would you ever soon come above unto me? For once upon a time from the binds of your lowliness I could always find the right slot for your sacred key Wracked with your charm I am circled like prey Back in the forest where whispers persuade More sugar trails more white lady laid Than pillars of salt Fold to my arms hold their mesmeric sway And dance out to the moon as we did in those golden days Christening stars I remember the way We were needle and spoon mislaid in the burning hay Bared on your tomb I'm a prayer for your loneliness And would you ever soon come above unto me? For once upon a time from the bind of your holiness I could always find the right slot for your sacred key

Holy Roller sits in the garden we fled Blood into wine, take my body instead Holy Roller sits in the garden we fled Blood into wine, take my body instead

[thecalminside]

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

-Thomas Browne

[caviarsonoro]

Richard Skelton: The Late Afflicting Fire ( A Guidonian Hand 2021).

The Late Afflicting Fire, décima pista de A Guidonian Hand (2021), se erige como uno de los movimientos más contenidos y de arquitectura más firme del proyecto. El álbum toma sus títulos de Thomas Browne (1605–1682) y desplaza el foco de los paisajes geográficos de etapas previas de Skelton, hacia procesos materiales (fusión, erosión, enfriamiento y resonancia) que este compositor asume como principios compositivos: fricción espectral, gestión del decaimiento y modulación de la masa sonora. Para ello, Skelton integra con natural continuidad recursos acústicos y electrónicos (piano, cello, maderas, címbalo frotado y capas tratadas digitalmente), para construir un sonido denso y suspendido, donde la frontera entre lo orgánico y lo procesado se difumina deliberadamente. Aquí, el piano no cumple una función armónica tradicional, sino que actúa como anclaje atmosférico. Su timbre, articulado en pulsaciones amortiguadas y sostenido por un uso amplio del pedal, se funde con el entorno electrónico y estabiliza la textura cuando amenaza con disolverse. El fuego no es una imagen luminosa, sino un símbolo de tiempo y pérdida; por ello, la pieza no avanza narrativamente, sino que mantiene una combustión interna, ardiendo sin consumirse, como unas brasas que conservan el calor mucho después de que la llama haya desaparecido. El tratamiento del piano en esta pieza es fundamental, porque introduce un equilibrio preciso entre fragilidad y permanencia. Cada nota, cuidadosamente amortiguada y sostenida, prolonga la resonancia hasta integrarse en el entorno sonoro, actuando como un punto de estabilidad dentro de una materia que tiende a disolverse. En lugar de imponer dirección, el instrumento ofrece resistencia silenciosa: su sonido no se opone al desgaste, sino que lo acompaña, transformando la decadencia en forma. Esa economía de gestos genera una nostalgia contenida, una melancolía que asume el paso del tiempo sin dramatismo, pero con una cierta dignidad serena. En esa contención hay un aire de grandeza discreta, como si el piano sostuviera, por momentos, la memoria de lo que se extingue. El resultado es una música que respira lentamente, construida sobre la alternancia de expansión y repliegue: capas que se abren y se cierran con naturalidad, intentando retener algo del sonido antes de su desaparición. En síntesis, A Guidonian Hand representa una evolución respecto a Landings (2009) y These Charms May Be Sung Over a Wound (2020), con menor dependencia del referente externo y mayor atención a la materialidad del sonido. The Late Afflicting Fire actúa como punto de convergencia, confirmando la madurez de este genial artista, en su exploración del sonido como materia física y temporal, en un territorio intermedio entre la electroacústica contemporánea y el ambient experimental.

[ineed-a-cigarette]

It's that time of the year once again. Halloween is upon me s and there is only one thing a witch can do. Wish well~

@normalpeoplescaremeh Happy Halloween Boy Wonder

To Michael

To Stan

To Thomas

To Xavier

[titusandronicusonice]

Thus we are men, and we know not how, there is something in us, that can be without us, and will be after us, though it is strange that it hath no history, what it was before us, nor cannot tell how it entred into us.

Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1643)

[churchblogmatics-blog]

Books for spiritual formation

Books that have left an indelible mark on my understanding of God or the Christian faith in some way. My spiritual development is unfinished, so this list is unfinished - I'm always open to suggestions

Soren Kierkegaard

The Sickness Unto Death - Explained how sin works psychologically, illustrates how it can be its own punishment

Works of Love - What it means to love, what it costs, what it gives us

Fear and Trembling - What faith means, its miraculous nature

Karl Barth

Evangelical Theology - What theology actually means, how the gospel is good news

The Epistle to the Romans - Shows the need for continual reformation of thought within the church, introduced (to me) the idea of God's freedom in communication to man

Church Dogmatics II.2 - Election is good news! It is God willing to choose humanity despite sin - universal reconciliation can and should be hoped for

The Journal of John Woolman

What undying commitment to justice means, what it looks like

Martin Luther King Jr

Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Made me understand how Romans 13:1 can be integrated into radical politics

A Gift of Love - Brought to life 1 John 4:20

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

A narrative illustration of unwavering faith

The Imitation of Christ, Thomas Kempis

What we're saved to, salvation has a telos

Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood - Life without Christ, the perils of sola scriptura

A Good Man is Hard to Find - Shows grace as an intrusive lived experience

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead novels (Gilead, Home, Lila) - Rich illustration of Imago Dei

When I Was a Child I Read Books - Bolstered my understanding of the 8th commandment (reading with charitable intent, in interactions with others in life and on the page)

What Are We Doing Here? - Illustrates what the glory of God means in daily experience

Garry Wills

What Paul Meant - Paul and Jesus were of a unified mind, stop reading Paul as a bible thumper, start reading him as a man who loved dearly and wrote with urgency on live issues

Religio Medici, Thomas Browne

Ecumenism is a beautiful thing and should be strived for in all Christian communities

The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton

The gospel brings peace of mind and soul, searching for peace is a valid epistemology

Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt

Wickedness is not inevitable, it arises from moral and intellectual sluggardliness

The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Learn to love the church, it is the arms of Christ; great exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount; great companion to the book of James

White Evangelical Racism, Anthea Butler

Evangelicalism did not emerge from theological first principles, it is a diseased expression of the faith informed by racism at the root

Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes du Mez

Evangelicalism did not emerge from theological first principles, it is a diseased expression of the faith informed by misogyny at the root

C.S. Lewis

The Great Divorce - Eternity begins now, sin is its own punishment and grace is its own reward

Till We Have Faces - God has compassion and patience for those who wrestle with him, to summon the boldness to contend with God can be a blessed thing

The Courage to Be, Paul Tillich

The dynamics of Christian faith explained in the abstract

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

The thinness of intellectual assent, the richness of faith

The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker

Explanation of the existential need faith meets in the language of continental philosophy

Confessions, St. Augustine

The most theologically and philosophically rich testimony besides that of St. Paul

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity, Jonathan Edwards

What is the trinity, why is it important

John Milton

Areopagitica - Enforced virtue means nothing

Paradise Lost - Human beings are worth saving even if they aren't deserving of God's favor

Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud

Illustrates the necessity of grace by exploring a world through the assumption of its absence (excellent foil to A Gift of Love)

The Nature of Doctrine, George Lindbeck

Describes faith as a qualitatively different thing from any other type of knowledge or experience, provides an inventive and elegant response to Kant's First Critique without subordinating faith to the tribunal of reason

Jesus - God & Man, Wolfhart Pannenberg

Heretical in its own right, but a useful survey of the history of christology, shows how doctrine calcifies into orthodoxy

[leslie-sawyer]

Gunnar Hansen/ Leatherface Pretty Woman from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974