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
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Solaris by Stanisław Lem
When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself …
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On Being Different by Merle Miller (Penguin classics)
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
When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself …
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How to be both by Ali Smith (Clipper -- LP3487)
This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's …
mouse wants to read The European Book in the Twelfth Century by Erik Kwakkel

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 (Clipper -- LP3487)
This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's …
mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
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 Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 58)
mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
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.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 36)
mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
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.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 23)
mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
Moreover, for many girls, it was the presence, not the absence, of a prospective bridegroom that activated desire for perpetual chastity.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 20)
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Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
mouse quoted Legal Plunder by Daniel Lord Smail
Unlike the more charitably inclined members of the laity, moreover, the clergy never issues acts of grace that relieved their debtors of their burdens.
— Legal Plunder by Daniel Lord Smail (Page 269)
mouse quoted Legal Plunder by Daniel Lord Smail
In cases where the consul was the victim of predation, responsibility for warehousing the items seized from his place of residence, bizarrely, was often assigned to the consul himself.
— Legal Plunder by Daniel Lord Smail (Page 203)
mouse quoted Legal Plunder by Daniel Lord Smail
Even seemingly innocuous objects were worth something. Otherwise, it is impossible to understand why, in Marseille in the year 1331, a man named Peire de Sepeda should have chosen to make good on a debt by invading the home of his debtor and removing, of all things, a tablecloth and two napkins. There is always the possibility, of course, that the debtor, Antoni de Serra, was eating off them at the time of the home invasion: the record carefully specifies that the tablecloth was on the table when Peire seized it. In this case, the value of the linens may have been incidental to the insult delivered by their seizure.
— Legal Plunder by Daniel Lord Smail (Page 144 - 145)