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		exprez135 65 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in... Only in recent years have I appreciated how familiarity with such material so enriches my experience of other, later literature. To use this example, the title of C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces and its eponymous sentence (paraphrased): How can we know the gods face to face, till we have faces?

dustincoates 64 days ago [–]

Also: the Mountain Goats' Love Love Love.

Love, love is going to lead you by the hand

Into a white and soundless place

Now we see things as in a mirror, dimly

Then we shall see each other face to face

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