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“So You Would Give Me Joy? Then I Refuse”

From Holly Ordway, a sonnet on hell, beginning: Hell is not too small a space for me. You offer more, but I won’t pay the cost. I have what’s mine for all eternity: I have myself, whatever else I’ve lost. So you would give me joy? Then I refuse… [From The Problem of Pain Sonnet …

November 16, 2011 – 8:39 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, The Faith, Worldviews, Worth Reading | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Hard Question of the Weekend

Is Jabberwocky the best nonsense poem in the English language? If not, then in what language is it the best nonsense?

May 23, 2008 – 10:35 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged , | Comments (6)