11.11.2007
Marilynne Robinson: The McBride Lectureship on Faith and Literature
Photos of luncheon for Marilynne Robinson with student presenters:
Our favorite quotes:
-“There is a beautifully terrible mystery in it all, a great pathos—art and religion tell us this.”
-“Religious people are more alike than different.”
-“Criticism is hypothesis.”
-“Religion cannot teach wisdom until it puts aside distraction and becomes itself again.”
-“We do not deal with each other soul to soul, but with disrespect and irreverence instead.”
-“Humanity needs and craves fiction.”
-“The loss of the soul has been disabling. The masterpiece of creation is reduced to being spoken of as only lost or saved.”
-“literature and religion come into meaning together.”
-“Write the book you want to read. Gilead is proof you can write anything.”
-“Speak from what you love and believe. Always respect the reader.”
-“Dissent into the self to write well, explore your interior landscape. You will find it to be strange and beautiful.”
-“Trust that you know things of profound truth and beauty.”
-“I don’t know where my literature ends and I begin.”
-“To know about a character is to write plot. To know the character is to explore a reality not quite your own.”
-“All we know about what we are is what we do.”
-“forget definition and assumption, instead watch.”
Photos of the lecture and book signing:
Our favorite quotes:
-“There is a beautifully terrible mystery in it all, a great pathos—art and religion tell us this.”
-“Religious people are more alike than different.”
-“Criticism is hypothesis.”
-“Religion cannot teach wisdom until it puts aside distraction and becomes itself again.”
-“We do not deal with each other soul to soul, but with disrespect and irreverence instead.”
-“Humanity needs and craves fiction.”
-“The loss of the soul has been disabling. The masterpiece of creation is reduced to being spoken of as only lost or saved.”
-“literature and religion come into meaning together.”
-“Write the book you want to read. Gilead is proof you can write anything.”
-“Speak from what you love and believe. Always respect the reader.”
-“Dissent into the self to write well, explore your interior landscape. You will find it to be strange and beautiful.”
-“Trust that you know things of profound truth and beauty.”
-“I don’t know where my literature ends and I begin.”
-“To know about a character is to write plot. To know the character is to explore a reality not quite your own.”
-“All we know about what we are is what we do.”
-“forget definition and assumption, instead watch.”
There was also a professor panel--including Dr. LaMascus, Mrs. Gatewood, and Dr. McBride--during lang./lit. chapel, to discuss Gilead and Housekeeping.
OC Organizational Fair
Sigma Tau Delta and the OC Literacy Program set up booths at the annual Organizational Fair on campus to promote involvement in the language and literature department.
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