tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753948402075174201.post2118802081957830646..comments2023-11-26T06:02:47.413-05:00Comments on The Jade Sphinx: Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan, by Clement A. Miles (1913)James Abbotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16542728058203964856noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753948402075174201.post-6012617117213941432013-12-16T16:57:29.754-05:002013-12-16T16:57:29.754-05:00How I wish I were with you at that concert!
Many ...How I wish I were with you at that concert!<br /><br />Many thanks for the Burne-Jones comment which, actually, boils down Christmas to its essence. Have a Merry Christmas and a GREAT 2014.James Abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16542728058203964856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4753948402075174201.post-17816140751443600522013-12-15T08:04:05.213-05:002013-12-15T08:04:05.213-05:00What a lovely piece, thank you for introducing us ...What a lovely piece, thank you for introducing us to this book. Just last night I was at a beautiful concert of carols and other songs at a candlelit Peterborough cathedral and the sublime beauty of music and setting will live with me for a long time. This sense of reverence for something bigger than ourselves is surely one of the great losses of the modern age with its desperate need to undercut everything of value with irony and sarcasm.<br />This sense of the ineffable I think was summed up by Burne-Jones' comment when, whilst working on his giant painting of the Nativity, now at Birmingham, a little girl aged 5 asked him if it was a true story. He replied simply "It is too beautiful not to be true"david thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05692146122552088160noreply@blogger.com