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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 10:02
Subject: A great quote in Willa Cather's " The Professor's House "
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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 10:02
Subject: A great quote in Willa Cather's " The Professor's House "
To: Letters <letters@latimes.com>
[I don't think you help people by making their conduct of no importance-you impoverish them. As long as every man and woman who crowded into the cathedrals on Easter Sunday was a principal in a gorgeous drama with God, glittering angels on one side and the shadows of evil coming and going on the other, life was a rich thing. The king and the beggar had the same chance at miracles and great temptations and revelations. And that's what makes men happy, believing in the mystery and importance of their own little individual lives. It makes us happy to surround our creature needs and bodily instincts with as much pomp and circumstance as possible. Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had."]
Page 55 , " The Professor's House " by Willa Cather
Ron Ruggieri , 75 Mathewson St., Cranston , Rhode Island , 02920 ( 401-580-7432 )
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