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Beauty and the Tyrant

Posted on November 2, 2009 by jlh

Why bother with Arenas? A comment follows this quotation. Quoting Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls (1993): “At the [Cuban] National Library in 1969 Lezama [Lima] gave a reading of perhaps one of the most extraordinary essays of Cuban literature under … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 23, 2009 by jlh

As the potter fires her pottery in the kiln to make it last, so God walks with us through fire that the beauty God created within us will be eternal.

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