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		<title>Moving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have decided to move over to ponticianus.com The content will be more/less the same, with an emphasis on original writing. I encourage you to follow me over there, as well as on twitter : @ponticianus Si quis autem vestrum indiget sapientiam postulet a Deo qui dat omnibus affluenter et non inproperat et dabitur ei; postulet [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portmanteaus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7212022&#038;post=3617&#038;subd=portmanteaus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chastity without Charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ponticianus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Iames the gentele iugeth in his bokes That fayth withouten feet is feblore than naught And as ded as a dore-nayl but yf the dedes folowe: Fides sine operibus mortua est. Chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in hell; Hit is as lewed as a laumpe that no liht is ynne. (I.181-185) For gentle James [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portmanteaus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7212022&#038;post=3598&#038;subd=portmanteaus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Candlemas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 01:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ponticianus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nunc dimittis servum tuum Domine secundum verbum tuum in pace quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum quod parasti ante faciem omnium populorum lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam plebis tuae Israhel. (Lk 2.29-32) Lord, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portmanteaus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7212022&#038;post=3592&#038;subd=portmanteaus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parable of the Lost Drachma</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ponticianus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running to the window, he opened it and put out his head. No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious! Glorious!&#8221; “What’s to-day!” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portmanteaus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7212022&#038;post=3581&#038;subd=portmanteaus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Hampden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ponticianus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history. Our little voyages of discovery were often prolonged by the successive objects that presented themselves. We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden and the field on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portmanteaus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7212022&#038;post=3580&#038;subd=portmanteaus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For ye suffers fool gladly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ponticianus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the recent David Brooks&#8217; column in the New York Times (3 Jan 2013): I don’t give myself high marks on suffering fools. I’m not rude to those I consider foolish, but I strenuously and lamentably evade them. But I do see people who handle fools well. Many members of the clergy do, as do [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portmanteaus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7212022&#038;post=3565&#038;subd=portmanteaus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Eighth Day of Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ponticianus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shepherds hurried away to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. When they saw the child they repeated what they had been told about him, and everyone who heard it was astonished at what the shepherds had to say. As for Mary, she treasured all these things and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portmanteaus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7212022&#038;post=3555&#038;subd=portmanteaus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ponticianus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portmanteaus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7212022&#038;post=3554&#038;subd=portmanteaus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>necromancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ponticianus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No! no!&#8221; said Bilbo. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t mean that. I meant, is there no way round [Mirkwood]?&#8221; &#8220;There is, if you care to go two hundred miles or so out of your way north, and twice that south. But you would get a safe path even then. There are no safe paths in this part of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portmanteaus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7212022&#038;post=3538&#038;subd=portmanteaus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scotch</title>
		<link>http://portmanteaus.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/scotch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ponticianus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was gifted a bottle of Scotch on the occasion of becoming a father. Dalwhinne 15. Dalwhinnie, the town where the distillery is located, is smack in the middle of Scotland, not very close to anything of note like Edinburgh nor Glasgow. It&#8217;s about level with Aberdeen, which means it&#8217;s in the north, but it&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=portmanteaus.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7212022&#038;post=3476&#038;subd=portmanteaus&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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