tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post2036109194824884717..comments2024-03-16T13:54:59.016-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Get the Begging Part Over With Quickly'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-50165497925294541502013-11-22T00:42:25.079-06:002013-11-22T00:42:25.079-06:00"Interesting country" -- that's one ..."Interesting country" -- that's one way to put it... I wish I could muster such euphemism.<br /><br />Excellent post though, by the way. Had never read that Auden poem.<br /><br />I wish you the best in recovery from your surgery.<br /><br />JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-26606512790408015122013-11-21T17:02:58.652-06:002013-11-21T17:02:58.652-06:00Yet He whom Christians recognize as the foremost a...Yet He whom Christians recognize as the foremost authority on the matter gave us the Lord's Prayer, in which the praise appears first, and the begging follows. And the root of the word "prayer" in English and the Romance language, and for that matter of "beten" in German, is to request.<br /><br />But as Epstein says, there is much to be grateful for.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com