A quote from Christ the Tiger, by Thomas Howard: Our situation is directly analogous to that of men in Death Row. We fill in the time somehow, but we shall not get out. The inevitable event makes the intervening activities look absurd. * * * We are all sitting in Death Row. One fine day the […]
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Christ the Tiger
I picked up this book because I had just read Howard’s Chance or the Dance, and was much impressed. In case you missed it, here is an excerpt from a comment to that post: “This person [Thomas Howard] was a Muggeridge level word smith. When he spoke his words had texture and solidness. It was something I never experienced before. […]
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I found Thomas Howard’s book Chance or the Dance because I’d read Eugene Warren’s poem Christographia XIV. Warren used the phrase Chance or the Dance and I thought it would be a good title for a book I’ve written and am just beginning to market, examining evidence (existence, intuition, yearning, significance, and so on) according to […]
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