I WENT TO WASHINGTON DC TO PRAYWritten by Irvin L. Rozier
Continued from page 1 by a mannequin of Jesus holding a lamb. Nearby was an American flag. I stepped up, she put "Amazing Grace" on a cassette recorder she had, I rendered a hand salute, held it as Holy Ghost came on me, and tears began to pour down my cheeks. The crowd stood silent, as words of Amazing Grace rang throughout area. After it was over, I dropped my salute, went to parade rest, and Lord spoke to me and said, "Mission Accomplished", You can go back home, now." I wrote this story in my book, My Walk with Lord, which by way, has slowly spread like ripples from a rock thrown in a lake. So, to answer your question, Yes, Lord has used me in all kinds of ways.
Author of My Walk with the Lord, www.selahbooks.com, various other articles and poems (do a yahoo or google search on my name), preacher, retired military, , graduate of Excelsior College(BS,AS), Wright State Univ (AA), plus over 20 military courses including the Adjutant General Officers Advanced Course, the Warrant Officer Senior Course, the Non-commissioned Officers Advanced Course, .
| | Dante was told to make HellWritten by Robert Bruce Baird
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Inferno XX deals with validity and legitimacy of acts of writing and reading. As Hollander has shown, Dante evokes his classical auctores in order to correct them, misreading their texts in such a way as to damn diviners, like Amphiaraus and Tiresias, whom ancients considered noble practitioners of art, tellers of truth. By placing these diviners in fourth bolgia, Dante establishes their falsity, and his disagreement on this score with his classical predecessors. One of classical predecessors so invoked is Vergil, Comedy's resident poeta, and it is as his new self that Vergil retells story of Manto, altering earlier account found in tenth book of Aeneid. The Latin poem relates that prophetess bears a child, Ocnus, who founds city and gives it his mother's name: «qui muros matrisque dedit tibi, Mantua, nomen» («who gave you walls and name of his mother, O Mantua» [Aen. X, 200]). The Comedy, on other hand, relates that Manto, «la vergine cruda» (82), settled and died in a spot later chosen by men from surrounding regions as suitable for a city: «Fer la città sovra quell' ossa morte» (91). Most interesting about Vergil's speech is his closing injunction to pilgrim to disregard all other accounts of Mantova's founding; since only true story is one he has just heard, pilgrim must «let no lie defraud truth», i.e. he must reject all other accounts as false (97-99):” (1)
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