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Jennings is hip enough to make fun of his freakish triviaphilia but savvy enough to indulge it too--part of the joy of Brainiac is learning that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day and that Charles Bronson was the only member of both The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen. There's something touching about the world of trivia. It's a place where minutiae have a paradoxical grandeur and no fact is meaningless. Or as the coach of Carleton's quiz-bowl team puts it, "Everything's going to be worth 10 points someday...
...Augustine of Hippo writes in ¨City of God,¨ another standard of the Gov 1060 syllabus, “The greater the joy, the greater the pain that precedes...
...it’s their job, and the reading list won’t be very focused (unless you consider “excerpts from the Western Canon” focused). On the other hand, you’ll be dealing with classic texts that are either (a) a joy to read or (b) great to say that you’ve read (“ I can’t tell you how much I was taken by Shelley’s metaphors!”). If Peter Savaal is still TF’ing either class...
...great joys of owning a bible, assuming you're a person who takes joy in owning a bible-is highlighting it. Another (since not everyone likes to write in the margins) is attaching sticky notes. Obviously this applies to all books, but even college texts, which get worked over heavily, have a shelf-life, so there's only so much annotation you do. This is not true of Bibles, which in many evangelical circles end up looking like Mondrian done in pink and green pastels...
...terry-cloth robes made from organic cotton. Nevertheless, Jaulin has avoided the Zen music trap, dismissing it as "not very Paris" and opting instead for a mix of rhythm and blues played, sotto voce, over the speakers. "The point of this place is to experience well-being, lightness and joy, and I want the music to reflect that...