From 19eee817077d5eba689de1c652652ccf71d5a1ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 17:10:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/choice.md | 2 ++ writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/clash.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/choice.md b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/choice.md index e235f0b1..9706ceab 100644 --- a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/choice.md +++ b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/choice.md @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Or he can take up the path of Qohelet: yes, all may be meaningless, a chasing af None of this is written, but such is the way of a text like this: it does not do the work for us. We must do the work. We must read between the lines and between the letters, and we must pull together this meaning from fable and verse. We must elevate the unknown things. After all, if we fail to do that work, we fall upon the simple terrors of phrases like "bad things happen to good people" or, worse, "bad things happen to sinners, and aren't we all?" +((Chesterton: It is the lesson of the whole work that man is most comforted by paradoxes.)) + We must imagine his choice. We must imagine that Job, too, can be happy. ----- diff --git a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/clash.md b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/clash.md index 6f3dd1e5..dfe93ad4 100644 --- a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/clash.md +++ b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/clash.md @@ -152,6 +152,6 @@ Chesterton, here, disagrees. "God will make Job see a startling universe if He c > If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good. \parencite{intro-to-job} -> "A man who hungers and thirsts +> "A man who hungers and thirsts after justice is not satisfied with a menu. It is not enough for him to hope or believe or know that there is absolute justice in the universe: he must taste and see it. It is not enough that there may be justice someday in the golden haze of the future: it must be now; must *always* have been now." \parencite[xviii]{mitchell} (It's a performance)