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Stoked and honored to present my paper "The Virginal and the Voluptuous: Lunar Imagery in Till We Have Faces" at the Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference in September!
Olivia Hofer
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Olivia Hofer
@oghofer
I tell stories, drink tea, read ancient literature, and celebrate the Oxford comma. 'A beastly American.' โ C.S. Lewis, probably. Married to a ๐จ๐ฆ.
Joined May 2016
- You: 40 years ago-- Me: ah, so 1960 You: No, 1980. Me: no
- I am disabled, chronically ill, in pain in every part of my body every moment of every day, and likely to remain so until I die. My suffering is not meaningless. My life is beautiful. And should I ever be driven by despair to desire to end it, I deserve suicide *prevention*.
- Replying to @oghoferWhoa, I see I'm not the only one with a skewed sense of time! I don't have a Soundcloud (that I feel like sharing anyway), but let's bring attention to the genocide China is waging against an ethno-religious minority, the Uyghurs.
- Matthew: One of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear Luke: One of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear John: Peter. It was Peter.
- "Single girls approaching thirty are single for a reason" Yes, sometimes the reason is they haven't met a guy worth marrying.I know everyone will hate me for saying this, but single girls approaching 30โฆ are single for a REASON. 99% of the time they have character flaws that repel good men. And when you point them out, they just go โwell, they should just love me and accept me for me!โ Itโs sad.
- Replying to @nienna121When I, having lived in the South for like fifteen years, told a Canadian friend I was grabbing my winter coat, she looked at the skimpy single layer of fleece I was referring to and laughed. She said "I'd literally die if that was all I had" and she's not wrong. ๐
- Don't reply. Instead, send a new email with the subject "Back yard" that reads, "Our kids will be playing in the back yard. Could you please cut out on the complaining. There is no reason for it. It interferes with our children's physical, mental, and emotional development."
- The front page of the New York Times on October 8, 1933. "authorize physicians to end the sufferings of incurable patients" "it shall be made possible for physicians to end the tortures of incurable patients, upon request, in the interests of true humanity" "the act of
- Not only did he *not* say this, he portrayed Hell as having more or less the opposite reaction to a Christian dying in The Screwtape Letters.
Readers added contextThis isnโt a C S Lewis quote. Itโs likely to be from C T Studd. essentialcslewis.com/2017/01/07/ccsโฆ - Replying to @oghoferAccounts to follow for more info: @UyghurBulletin @CUyghurs @UyghurProject @RushanAbbas @UyghurCongress
- Replying to @oghoferBetween this and the beating Peter to the tomb bit, I get the feeling their friendship consisted largely of playfully ribbing each other.
- Replying to @courtneyellisThis is at most tangentially related but I only just learned the recommended daily iron for women of reproductive age is MORE THAN TWICE THAT OF MEN??? I've struggled with iron deficieny anemia my whole life and NOT A SINGLE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL THOUGHT TO TELL ME THIS?????
