Sacrifice, Self-Sacrifice and Oppression, Self-Oppression

Teresa at Flesh and Spirit writes from a Girardian perspective about sacrifice. She begins in this post by critiquing Eve Tushnet, a converted Catholic lesbian who has apparently given up sexual relationships as a form of self-sacrifice. Teresa comments on this sacrifice, and on Tushnet’s wariness of interpreting her own experience correctly:
“Tushnet has chosen to [...]

Strange Things, 2 Feb. — or are they ordinary?

From a book I’m reading now, Henning Mankell’s Before the Frost (2004):
“‘I’ve never seen anything like this landscape before,’ Lindman said. ‘Not in the west, not up in Härjedalen. Here Sweden simply slopes down to the sea and ends. All this mud and fog. It’s very strange. I’m trying to find my feet in a [...]