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Happy Birthday Dooj!

You got it! Andrew Murray's Absolute Surrender, now you can repost your quote.

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No problem, Cynic. While I was off composing my last reply, I missed that you withdrew the quote. Please do keep it handy.

Cynic, Welcome to the Forum and sure, it’s fine with me, let’s continue with your quote. But indulge me if you will, with an observation about Dooj’s previous quotes from Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. I haven’t read the book in many years but it did have a significant effect on me when I read it. It’s set in New Orleans, my home town, and among the French speaking natives of New Orleans, known back when the book was set in the 1800s as “Creoles”. These are my ancestors and so the book had a familiar feel to me when I read it. In fact I may even be related to the author, I have relatives named Chopin in my family tree. I remember on one trip to visit my family in New Orleans, I dragged my husband and father on a driving trip to visit Grand Isle, where the Creoles migrated in the summer months to escape the heat and diseases of New Orleans. (And where the main drama of The Awakening takes place, where the heroine of the story ends up drowning herself in the Gulf of Mexico.)I think it’s about a hundred miles or so from the city of New Orleans, a really picturesque drive down the Louisiana bayous. The most powerful memory of that trip however, was when we finally reached our destination and crossed over the bridge that now connects Grand Isle to the “mainland”. As excited as I was about reaching the endmost part of the Louisiana coastline, looking for the quaint vacation cottages described by Kate Chopin and seeing mainly oil drilling equipment, the most overpowering thing was the heat. We stepped out of our air-conditioned car and almost bowled over in the intensity of the humidity and heat. I can’t think of another time in my life, (except maybe in the sweat lodge at LEAD, but that’s another story) when I couldn’t hardly breathe because of the intensely humid heat, and I grew up in New Orleans. Maybe it was just an abnormally hot day, but I can’t imagine anyone going there to escape the heat. We took probably less than a minute to look around and say wow, it’s hot, I can hardly breathe, let’s go. Here’s an essay from Literary Traveler site (literarytraveler.com) that describes a visit to Grand Isle that wasn’t as “brief” as mine was: Sunset Grand Isle, LA - A visit to the setting of The Awakening

Kate Chopin?

Is it Flaubert?

You got it! All the quotes are from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Take it away Dooj!

Nah Dan, not Cooper, It's not that kind of tribe. It's about New York "society". Here's a couple more:

Happy Birthday BT! May God bless your year with overflowing blessings!

Karl Marx?

Isaac Newton?

Einstein?

Dear One, I can't speak about where John Schoenheit is at currently because I haven't had any contact with him in many years. But when I did know him years ago he was a very fine upstanding Christian man with a great gift for teaching God's Word. We should all be grateful to him for taking a stand at a very critical time after VPW's death and being man enough and holy enough to confront the sin of adultery in TWI. He paid a high price for this in losing his job and being ostracized and branded as a "persona non grata" for his stand against evil. John Schoenheit is ok in my book. And I want to publicly give him honor and credit for being instrumental in freeing me and many others at that critical time.

It was Virgil. BFH, you were the 1st to name Virgil, so you're up...

I knew one of you Latin loving guys would get it. Yes, it is the Aeneid, but it was (as you posted down below) Virgil, not Ovid, who wrote it. This was John Dryden's translation from the Latin. Dryden (1631-1700) said in his introduction to the translation that "I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English, as he would himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present Age."

Virginia Woolf?

You are very welcome. So glad that fixed it. Back atcha with the hugs ((((((((((RottieGrrrl))))))))))))))

Hi RG, Try clicking on options at the top right of any post you're reading, and then go down to "switch to standard view" and select that; that should fix it. You probably accidentally selected the outline view.

Happy Birthday to you, Su... uh, I mean Purple Days! Hope it's a great one!

Happy Birthday to you M. You're a Star!

BFH. You are right. It's John Locke. The first quotes are from his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The ones on government are from his Treatises on Civil Government. The TV show LOST has a number of famous philosopher/author names such as Hume and Rousseau. Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry for John Locke (Lost): (On the TV show Locke's father is named Anthony Cooper.)B. you're up.

Here's another quote: And another hint: A major character on the TV show LOST is named after him and not by accident.