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There was something inside the music; something that squished and scuttled and honked and raved, something unsettling, like a snake in a satin glove.
Lovecraft's Monsters
Neil Gaiman
It’s quite common to enter a library and find yourself in conversation with the dead. The best minds of generations long gone crowd every bookshelf. They wait there to be noticed, to be addressed, and to reply in turn. In the library the dead meet the living on collegial terms as a matter of course, every day.”
The Greco-Syrian monarch Antiochus IV Epiphanes ruled one of the three major segments of Alexander’s vast empire, which had once stretched from the plains of Macedonia to the mountains of India. But, by the early 160s BCE, in an attempt to integrate Israel fully into his realm and to eliminate any faith-based opposition to that program, he launched a religious persecution against Judaism itself.
The First Christmas
Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan
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