Yesterday was the Feast of All Saints. Today is the Feast of All Souls.
Those of us who are not saints may profit from the writings of both the saintly Thomas Wolfe and the more secular Tom Wolfe.
From Log24.net on the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, a quotation from St. Thomas Wolfe:
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“Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?” |
See also a Wolfe quotation from the Feast of St. Gerard Manley Hopkins in 2003.
For the Feast of St. Thomas Wolfe himself, see the Log24 entries of Sept. 15 (the date of Wolfe’s death).
Readings more suited to today, All Souls’ Day, than to yesterday, All Saints’:
Bright Young Things,
Andrew at St. Andrews,
and, of course,
Under the Volcano.
Andrew at St. Andrews recommends the remarks, in The Guardian, of Tom Wolfe on today’s election.
The fact that the protagonist of Tom Wolfe’s new novel is a virgin from the hill country of North Carolina, combined with the above entry on Nell from the Feast of St. Ignatius, brings us back to the earlier Wolfe… For the later, secular Wolfe on the earlier, saintly Wolfe, see