![]() ![]() I had never heard of him and had no idea of what he stood for nor can I quite understand why he made such an immediate conquest of me. It was here that I first read a volume of Chesterton’s essays. ![]() It was while in the army in WWI that Lewis said: ![]() I was equally angry with Him for creating a world. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. Lewis credits Chesterton, and in particular The Everlasting Man, with displaying the rationality of the Christian worldview par excellence, though it was not one work alone, but a progressive development away from atheism and toward God, that Lewis discusses. Gilbert Kyle Chesterton remains one of the great voices of Christian faith in the last century, and it is a tragedy that more Christians are not familiar with his work. ![]()
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And, of course, some people never leave the one home they’ve always known. ![]() Some people never find another after once leaving home. Some people, as they move through their lives, rediscover home again and again. Feeling at home on the Tiwi Islands or in Bangalore or Vancouver (if you are not native) is simply a way of saying that the not-home-ness of those places has diminished since you first arrived. But there’s a big psychological difference between feeling at home and being home. Not that you can’t feel “at home” in other places. Home is home, and everything else is not-home. But whatever else home is-and however it entered our consciousness-it’s a way of organizing space in our minds. ![]() When did “home” become embedded in human consciousness? Is our sense of home instinctive? Are we denning animals or nest builders, or are we, at root, nomadic? For much of the earliest history of our species, home may have been nothing more than a small fire and the light it cast on a few familiar faces, surrounded perhaps by the ancient city-mounds of termites. ![]() ![]() These teen Red Guards were culled from the communist elite, and Mao wanted them to overturn the system he had imposed. ![]() To demonstrate his powers, Mao floated downstream for two miles of the muddy Yangtze river In the 1960s the generation of Chinese who had supported the Communist party after Mao seized power from the nationalists in 1949 were cowed into obedience. After confessing to crimes, they were beaten up and publicly humiliated, forced to wear dunce hats in front of jeering crowds, standing immobile for hours in the painful “propeller” position, a half-stoop that wrenched their arms out of their sockets. Teachers were subjected to notorious “struggle sessions”. It was necessary to destroy the bourgeois past, and this involved the wholesale looting of shrines, the destruction of books and parchment, the smashing of ornaments and the pillaging of homes belonging to the wealthy. But Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution also had a darker side. ![]() ![]() Like their western contemporaries who encountered the Beatles, they told each other that their lives were changed. ![]() He named his teenage followers Red Guards, and it was they who packed Tiananmen Square, waving copies of the Little Red Book filled with his sayings as they stood in their millions for a brief sight of him. “T o rebel is justified,” the Great Helmsman intoned. ![]() ![]() He had recently obtained a new job working for the Parks Department. In the spring of 1927, Miller was living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights with his second wife June Miller and her lover, Jean Kronski. It has never been published only fragments remain, although parts of it were recycled in later works, including in the brief portraits of Western Union messengers in Tropic of Capricorn. ![]() A prequel of sorts to Miller's first published novel, 1934's Tropic of Cancer, it was banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents were not obscene.ĭuring a three-week vacation from Western Union in 1922, Miller wrote his first novel, Clipped Wings, a study of 12 Western Union messengers. Tropic of Capricorn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, first published by Obelisk Press in Paris in 1939. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the case of the Trace, bison traveled north to find salt licks in the Nashville area. Native Americans used many early footpaths created by the foraging of bison, deer, and other large game that could break paths through the dense undergrowth. Largely following a geologic ridge line, prehistoric animals followed the dry ground of the Trace to distant grazing lands, the salt licks of today's Middle Tennessee, and to the Mississippi River. Parts of the original trail are still accessible, and some segments are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the path is commemorated by the 444-mile (715 km) Natchez Trace Parkway, which follows the approximate path of the Trace, as well as the related Natchez Trace Trail. ![]() As travel shifted to steamboats on the Mississippi and other rivers, most of these stands closed. European Americans founded inns, also known as "stands", along the Trace to serve food and lodging to travelers. ![]() The trail was created and used by Native Americans for centuries, and was later used by early European and American explorers, traders, and emigrants in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Natchez Trace, also known as the Old Natchez Trace, is a historic forest trail within the United States which extends roughly 440 miles (710 km) from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi rivers. ![]() |