When the writer of Revelation...
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When the writer of Revelation reports God's promise to make all things new, he is holding out the hope and the promise that there will also be an ending to human frailty and failing.
Charles Dickens, the noted English novelist, knew of the brokenness of humanity all too well. His writings overflowed with their stories and situations. Dickens even reflected his discomfort with the failings of this age in whimsical ways. In Tavistock House, a residence he arranged and decorated to his specific tastes before moving in, he installed a hidden door to his study, made to look like part of an unbroken wall of books. On the dummy shelves he had books painted, with fictitious titles he created himself.
Two of the volumes he created for his make-believe library carried revealing titles. The Wisdom of Our Ancestors was a set of books, each one devoted to a different vice, such as ignorance, superstition, means of human torture, dirt, and disease. A companion was The Virtues of Our Ancestors. Dickens designed this volume to appear so narrow that, unlike any of the others, the title for this one had to be printed sideways.
-- Sherer
Charles Dickens, the noted English novelist, knew of the brokenness of humanity all too well. His writings overflowed with their stories and situations. Dickens even reflected his discomfort with the failings of this age in whimsical ways. In Tavistock House, a residence he arranged and decorated to his specific tastes before moving in, he installed a hidden door to his study, made to look like part of an unbroken wall of books. On the dummy shelves he had books painted, with fictitious titles he created himself.
Two of the volumes he created for his make-believe library carried revealing titles. The Wisdom of Our Ancestors was a set of books, each one devoted to a different vice, such as ignorance, superstition, means of human torture, dirt, and disease. A companion was The Virtues of Our Ancestors. Dickens designed this volume to appear so narrow that, unlike any of the others, the title for this one had to be printed sideways.
-- Sherer
