Fije D.B 🇳🇬 🇵🇸

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Episcopalian, DSA-er, Nigerian exiled to central PA, ace-gay 🏳️‍🌈. Trying to get my reading list under control. Average Weil enjoyer. Sondheim-pilled. For friends hold all things in common.

Fije enjoys New Year's Day.
Book jacket for Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies
Chocolate and heavy cream melts together in a bain marie
From the Statement of the Program of St. John's College: "The books speak to us in more than one way. In raising the persisting human questions, they lend themselves to different interpretations that reveal a variety of independent and yet complementary meanings. And while seeking the truth, they please us as works of art with a clarity and a beauty that reflect their intrinsic intelligibility. They are, therefore, properly called great, whether they are epic poems or political treatises, and whether their subject matter is scientific, historical, or philosophical. They are also linked together, for each of them is introduced, supported, or criticized by the others. In that sense they converse with each other, and they draw the readers to take part, within the limits of their abilities, in a large and continuing conversation. This conversation, however, is unavoidably one-sided. The books can only repeat what they have to say, without furnishing the clarifications that we desire. To overcome this limitation is the goal of the St. John’s seminar."
A screenshot from a practice version of the Classical Learning Test, the "classical education" movement's answer to the SAT and ACT.
A still from "First Reformed" (2017). Ethan Hawke skulks past a white sign in front of his church, which reads "Will God Forgive Us?"
A shot from Brideshead Revisited (1981), subtitled, "And beware of Anglo-Catholics. They are all sodomites"
Amanda Seyfried in First Reformed
Bette Davis and Thelma Ritter in All About Eve
Ann Blyth (left) as Veda Pierce in 1942 Joan Crawford star vehicle "Mildred Pierce".
Carrie Coon as the nouvelle riche socialite Bertha Russell in "The Gilded Age", a show I love to hate. Bertha Russell insists on dressing and decorating her home like a deposed minor Hapsburg.
A poster advertising the 2017 Tonys hosted by Kevin Spacey
Excerpt from Section V of Inter Intersignores, Pope Paul VI's 1976 encyclical that argues that priestly ministry is naturally, essentially male.
Bronx public school teacher extraordinaire Dorothy Zbornak, "The Golden Girls"
Pope Joan, in the 2019 National Theatre Production of Caryl Churchill's feminist masterpiece "Top Girls"
Laurey and the Gentleman Caller, a scene from the Arizona Theater Company's excellent production of "The Glass Menagerie" I got to see last year
Top 0.1 percent of Sondheim listeners worldwide BAYBEEE
The ignominious cake scene from Red, White and Royal Blue (2023)
My landlord's cat is rightly unimpressed by my work.
Congressman Paul Gosar's tweets announcing the Jan. 6 insurrection, quoted in Robert Draper's "Weapons of Mass Delusion" (2023)