tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841866593898210279.post1003792235708940772..comments2023-10-31T03:54:17.210-05:00Comments on Thus Blogged Anderson: Stories of the absence of loveAndersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02325205512110155291noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841866593898210279.post-55698949765691856372012-04-06T01:36:30.286-05:002012-04-06T01:36:30.286-05:00Macdonald's stories may have been of or about ...Macdonald's stories may have been of or about the absence of love, but what's interesting to me is how they would still seem immersed in love anyway. Because to suspend judgment in a willingness to "find the connections; recognize what they mean; thereby, in all charity, understand" is a pure, potent, and rare love of the truth. As man is subsumed in truth, a charitable understanding extends to humankind a love of every person, just as they are, through the vagaries of every moment.J. Patricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841866593898210279.post-20403154510810002052012-04-05T11:26:55.538-05:002012-04-05T11:26:55.538-05:00Choctaw has some. Macdonald is surprisingly hard ...Choctaw has some. Macdonald is surprisingly hard to find used around here. <i>The Chill</i> is said to be his masterpiece, but I'm going to take a stab at reading the Archer books in sequence. <i>The Moving Target</i> and <i>The Drowning Pool</i> are the first two.Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325205512110155291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4841866593898210279.post-55030756435445946152012-04-05T11:12:32.880-05:002012-04-05T11:12:32.880-05:00Well, I never. That kind of obliges one to start c...Well, I never. That kind of obliges one to start canvassing the used book shelves at Amazon.com, doesn't it?Jimnoreply@blogger.com