From: "Steve Strickland" 
Subject: Re: (urth) A Thousand Ages
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:16:20 -0500

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Thanks for the verse five excerpts.  Resonates nicely.

Being a protestant who's married to a catholic, I can tell you with =
certainty that protestants and catholics sing each other's hymns all the =
time.

Steve Strickland
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  From: Steve Case=20
  To: urth@urth.net=20
  Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 5:43 PM
  Subject: (urth) A Thousand Ages


  In chapel today (I go to a Christian university) we had our academic =
convocation service and sang the hymn "Oh God, Our Help in Ages Past".  =
The fourth verse jumped out at me because it's the exact quote Wolfe =
uses to start the Book of the New Sun at the beginning of Shadow of the =
Torturer: "A thousand ages in thy sight/Are like an evening gone./Short =
as the watch that ends the night/Before the rising sun."  The hymn says =
it's based on Psalms 90, but I looked it up and the wording is different =
enough that I bet Wolfe got the quote directly from the song.  I just =
thought it was kind of interesting, and it made a boring service a =
little more enjoyable.  I thought Wolfe was a Catholic; do Catholics =
sing the same hymns Protestants do?  The other five verses don't hold a =
lot of interest in regards to the Short Sun, except for verse five: =
"Time, like an ever-rolling stream/Bears all its sons away./They fly =
forgotten as a dream/Dies at the opening day."  That fits the book =
rather nicely as well.

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              My two cents for the month,

              -Steve

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Thanks for the verse five =
excerpts.  Resonates=20
nicely.
 
Being a protestant who's married to a =
catholic, I=20
can tell you with certainty that protestants and catholics sing each =
other's=20
hymns all the time.
 
Steve Strickland

  
----- Original Message ----- 
  From:=20
  Steve =
Case 
  
To: urth@urth.net 
  
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, =
2002 5:43=20
  PM
  
Subject: (urth) A Thousand =
Ages
  


  

  
In chapel today (I go =
to a=20
  Christian university) we had our academic convocation service and sang =
the=20
  hymn =93Oh God, Our Help in Ages Past=94. =20
  The fourth verse jumped out at me because it=92s the exact =
quote Wolfe=20
  uses to start the Book of the New Sun at the beginning of Shadow of =
the=20
  Torturer: =93A thousand ages in thy sight/Are like an evening =
gone./Short as the=20
  watch that ends the night/Before the rising sun.=94  The hymn says it=92s based =
on Psalms 90,=20
  but I looked it up and the wording is different enough that I bet =
Wolfe got=20
  the quote directly from the song. =20
  I just thought it was kind of interesting, and it made a boring =
service=20
  a little more enjoyable.  I=20
  thought Wolfe was a Catholic; do Catholics sing the same hymns =
Protestants do?=20
   The other five verses =
don=92t hold=20
  a lot of interest in regards to the Short Sun, except for verse five: =
=93Time,=20
  like an ever-rolling stream/Bears all its sons away./They fly forgotten as a dream/Dies at the =
opening day.=94=20
   That fits the book =
rather nicely=20
  as well.
  
 
  
           =20
  My two cents for the month,
  
           =20
  -Steve
  
 

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