Joshua Gibbs

I'm picky. When I was young I never wanted to read books because no one wrote the kind of stories I wanted to read. I described to my father the kind of books I wanted to read and he had no suggestions. I wrote stories for myself all through out grade school and when the question of a major was put to me, my selection was based on that which I thought might afford me an audience.

There seems something vaguely defeatist about reading an abridged edition of a behemoth book. Through my many years of college, I began in 1999, and in all the failed relationships I've had since high school, I've become a firm believer in the notion that there is time enough to do whatever you want, provided you actually, factually want to get it done. "I just haven't had time to write you," we sometimes say to people we haven't seen in years, as though they will be so daft as to believe us. I would suggest that anyone reading an abridged edition of Moby Dick does not actually want to read Moby Dick at all.

As for critiques of how modern universities have become "hotbeds of atheism" and so forth, is it simply the vocabulary employed here that is distressing to secularists? Why not gloat? It is not as though the Church or secularists have ever been fighting for the rights of the other, equal time for the other. You don't need a weatherman, as Bob Dylan once sang.