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“Nowadays the devil has made such a mess of everything…that the world will presently become uninhabitable for anybody but Saints. The rest will drag their lives out in despair…Christian heroism will one day become the sole solution for the problems of life.”

Jacques Maritain, “The Things That Are Not Caesar’s” (1930)

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[Context: This is a phone-text conversation stretched over about 20 minutes between me & my daughter earlier today, Dec 22, the Friday before Christmas Monday.  I am at a nearby grocery store; she is at home; she had earlier declined to come shopping with me.  I am using semicolons rather than colons so I don't have back up and excise the stupid automatic emoji.]

 

C (me): You are wise beyond your years, my child

C; {store name} is a frickin' zoo

D (Daughter): D--n

C; Not a surprise

D; Popping off on a Friday afternoon

C; The Friday before Monday Christmas

D; Oh so trueeee

C; {another store name, a place I'd been a couple of hours previous} was not as zooey only because it was relatively early

C; I am here at {store name} to redeem the coupon we have that expires on the 24th

D; Ahhhh I see

C; I am only 7th in line now to check out

C; In the aisle with pasta spaghetti sauce canned fish vinegar salad dressing

D; An excellent aisle to be in

D; A choice aisle

C; Tomato sauce croutons

C; Canned fish includes caviar which I suppose makes sense

C; Happily I cannot hear the Christmas Muzak where I am standing

D; This is a brilliant innovation of the pickle aisle

[This alludes to the pickles being in the next aisle over from where I am in line, and for some reason no working speakers are over that aisle]

D; Benevolent pickle aura shielding and protecting you

C; 😁

 

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