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We don’t yet have a story structure that allows witches to be powerful for long stretches of time without men holding them back. And what makes the new Sabrina  so exciting is that it seems to be trying to build that story structure itself, in real time, to find a way to let Sabrina have her power and her freedom.

It might fail. But if it does, it will be a glorious and worthwhile failure — the type that comes with trying to pioneer a new kind of story.

—  Constance Grady at Vox, the morning before
      Devil's Night (Oct. 30-31), 2018

John Eglinton, frowning, said, waxing wroth:

—Upon my word it makes my blood boil to hear anyone compare Aristotle with Plato.

—Which of the two, Stephen asked, would have banished me from his commonwealth?

“Centering prayer is all about heartfulness, which
is a little different from mindfulness,” the Rev. Carl Arico,
a co-founder of Contemplative Outreach, said in a
telephone interview. “It goes to the relationship with God,
who is already there. It’s not sitting in a void.”