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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ And \emph{thanks}? There is too little bound up in that word for us to hang our
The second, however, is that there are categories that is misses by virtue of the way it thinks about prayer. It comes at it so literally! How could it possibly hope to encompass the headiness of ritual? The comfort of mantras? The familiarity of well-worn words that linger with us through liturgy? It is a goal-oriented, Christian (indeed, largely Protestant and Evangelical) view of prayer. The second, however, is that there are categories that is misses by virtue of the way it thinks about prayer. It comes at it so literally! How could it possibly hope to encompass the headiness of ritual? The comfort of mantras? The familiarity of well-worn words that linger with us through liturgy? It is a goal-oriented, Christian (indeed, largely Protestant and Evangelical) view of prayer.
And where is the silence of contemplation? Where that ecstasy --- that literal \emph{ekstasis} of standing beside oneself, the one of which the mystics sing --- of simply being? Of loving? And where is the silence of contemplation? Where that ecstasy --- that literal \emph{ekstasis} of standing beside oneself, the one of which the mystics sing --- of simply being? Of pouring love over oneself like an annointing oil?
\begin{quote} \begin{quote}
Dear Raspberry, Dear Raspberry,
@ -49,4 +49,4 @@ It's not that I never noticed before how many red things there are in the world.
\parencite[119--120]{timewar} \parencite[119--120]{timewar}
\end{quote} \end{quote}
There is prayer also in the quiet purity of love. There is prayer in the quiet purity of love, and Blue and Red, the main characters in Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's \emph{This Is How You Lose the Time War}, life a life in prayer.