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...much more psycho-analytical explanation of his subject; but the more he discovered the more he became convinced, he writes, that Lawrence's unusual place in history was of central importance. E.M. Forster wrote about Lawrence that in an age of faith he might have become a monk, or at least a holy crusader who continued to believe in his lost cause...
...words could almost have been written by some early Christian hermit, forsaking the pleasures of the city for the austere spiritual life of the desert. Instead, they are the thoughts of a 20th century monk, Malta el Meskin (Matthew the Poor), who is at the forefront of a remarkable renaissance of monasticism in the Coptic Church of Egypt...
...Mina the Hermit), who spent years in the desert, then ruled the church until 1971 as Pope Kyrillos VI. He reformed the monasteries through renewed austerity and discipline. The second was Kyrillos' successor, Antonius as Suriani, who currently heads the church as Pope Shenouda lII. Before becoming a monk, Pope Shenouda was once a lay teacher in the Coptic Sunday school movement, another church development that inspired renewed interest in monasticism. Even now Pope Shenouda retires each week to a mud-stuccoed hut in the des ert for a day or more of meditation and prayer...
Side Notes. Again like many jazz musicians-Thelonius Monk, for one -Cassavetes is most interested in the pauses and side notes everyone else passes over. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is another of the director's blitzed meditations on life at the edge. Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) owns a strip joint on Sunset Boulevard and a debt of dishonor. No sooner has he finished paying off the mortgage on the Crazy Horse West than he runs up an unmanageable IOU at a Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff...
After the appointment, Hume indicated that he had had no desire to leave Ampleforth. He learned of his appointment by telephone during dinner. Said he: "I must confess I did not enjoy the rest of the meal." But "a monk does not choose what he does; he does what he is told by his authorities...