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Today I attempted to mow the lawn. It went smashingly for the first half, at which point I ran the mower over a nest of hornets, a fact which (this is, in more ways than one, painful to admit) I didn't realize for over a minute, at which point I raced into the house.
And the hornets, like tiny, evil ducklings, followed me. Into the kitchen, up the stairs, into my bedroom, out of my bedroom, WHERE IS THE FLYSWATTER?, down the stairs, back into the kitchen, WHAP. I terminated one of the hornets with extreme prejudice. The other made its getaway and is flitting around the house Plotting Revenge for my murder of its sister.
I have spent the evening medicating my stings with baking soda, and am considering medicinal s'mores.
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On the other hand, I found an interesting link to an article about Harry Potter today: Harry Potter and the Doctrine of the Calvinists, an amusing and trenchant (and IMO convincing) explanation of how the Harry Potter universe totally has Calvinist underpinnings, except with an even scarier doctrine of predestination. Yes! Scarier than the Calvinists! You know you want to read it. (And if that's not enough, it has a really interesting argument about the Sorting Hat and the various Houses of Harry Potter.)
And the hornets, like tiny, evil ducklings, followed me. Into the kitchen, up the stairs, into my bedroom, out of my bedroom, WHERE IS THE FLYSWATTER?, down the stairs, back into the kitchen, WHAP. I terminated one of the hornets with extreme prejudice. The other made its getaway and is flitting around the house Plotting Revenge for my murder of its sister.
I have spent the evening medicating my stings with baking soda, and am considering medicinal s'mores.
***
On the other hand, I found an interesting link to an article about Harry Potter today: Harry Potter and the Doctrine of the Calvinists, an amusing and trenchant (and IMO convincing) explanation of how the Harry Potter universe totally has Calvinist underpinnings, except with an even scarier doctrine of predestination. Yes! Scarier than the Calvinists! You know you want to read it. (And if that's not enough, it has a really interesting argument about the Sorting Hat and the various Houses of Harry Potter.)
