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2025 Reading Goal

51% complete! mouse has read 27 of 52 books.

finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, #1)

Marie Kondo: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Hardcover, 2014, Ten Speed Press)

Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes …

I got this from the library out of curiosity -- it was such a thing ten years ago, that even though I never read it I felt like I knew everything in it by osmosis. I was reminded of it because I am approaching my first year anniversary of living in my new place and I thought it might be fun to follow this book as a bit. But ultimately it's seeped so thoroughly into the mainstream consciousness that commentating on it didn't seem that fun.

There is however one thing which no one told me: at one point she genuinely claims that completing her method will often cause people to have diarrhea.

quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)

Caroline Walker Bynum: Holy Feast and Holy Fast (Hardcover, 1987, University of California Press)

After her death Agnes's body exuded sweet oil from hands and feet, and the oil effected many cures.

The theme of exuding appears in several Italian vitae, as it does in those from the Low Countries and Germany. Flemish women were ore apt to exude milk, Italian and German women oil or manna; but in vitae from all regions the theme is clear.

Holy Feast and Holy Fast by  (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 145)

New regional stereotypes just dropped

quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)

Caroline Walker Bynum: Holy Feast and Holy Fast (Hardcover, 1987, University of California Press)

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.

Holy Feast and Holy Fast by  (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 58)