Matthew Walther on Orwells deathbed misreading of Evelyn Waugh :
Of the reissuing of classic British fiction, there seems to be no endat least not this year. Lucky Jim and The Old Devils are finally back in print. A Dance to the Music of Time is out on Kindle. The Overlook Press continues to roll out volume after volume of its Wodehouse Collectors series. Even poor neglected Barbara Pym has begun to wend her way daintily back onto the shelf, perhaps in advance of her upcoming centenary. But the real jewels in the crown are Little, Brown and Companys new editions of Evelyn Waugh: fourteen novels and one collection of short fiction, all in hardcover, trade paperback, e-book, and MP3.
Also today, George Weigel on a Benedict XVI epiphany :
When the Epiphany fell in the middle of the week and was a holy day of obligation, its importance as the commemoration of the manifestation of the Messiah was underscored; transferred to a Sunday, it tends to become one Sunday among others. The pre-1970 liturgical calendar recognized the significance of the Epiphany by designating Sundays after Epiphany between the conclusion of the Christmas season and the beginning of pre-Lent, thus stretching out the Churchs meditation on the Epiphany over several weeks. Now, Epiphany is quickly succeeded by the feast of the Lords Baptism, after which the liturgical period known by that dreadful neologism Ordinary Time begins.
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