Mostly for my own information...

[leahbobet]

(This is in the spirit of delta_november's occasional Proust updates. And because I like it, and want to keep it somewhere I can see it. LJ-as-commonplace book appeals to me.)

"That kind of love. You have to because you're a priest. Like God, it's your metier."
"You don't know anything about priests. I know we are supposed to love mankind indiscriminately, but I don't. That's why I gave up practical priesthood and became a professor. My faith charges me to love my neighbour but I can't and I won't fake it, in the greasy way professional lovers-of-mankind do -- the professionally charitable, the newspaper sob-sisters, the politicians. I'm not Christ, Arthur, and I can't love like Him, so I settle for courtesy, consideration, decent manners, and whatever I can do for the people I really do love..."
--Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus, pg. 227

This isn't quite how I run myself in the world -- the stuff about priesthood and Christ clearly doesn't apply -- but it gets close.

Comments

[deakat]

That is the phrase that I have been seeking: commonplace book.

It seems like a fine use for LJ. My commonplace books get lost too easily. I always know where to find my LJ. :)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I have been thinking of making a book-book for it, but I wouldn't use it often enough to merit going to get a new notebook.