Which Reminds Me

These books, "Turn of the Screw" and "Room With a View," are not my books. I did not read these books. These books were only suggestions from somewhere in La-La land, probably by the same person who went into some bizarre harangue about Edgar Allan Poe, as if his existence were proof that the Calkins family is evil and must be wiped off the map, as if I were somehow related to that devilish cad who dreamed of a trip to the moon. Well, Ancestry.com's famous relatives button did churn up Poe as a distant cousin of ours, but I might as well fly to the moon as figure out how that connection works, so distant is it from us. So perhaps we and Poe are chips off the same tree way back somewhere but not being of Greek persuasion, we do not imagine ourselves as indistinguishable flames. We are much indebted to the Greeks for their contributions to philosophy, and yet we see that too much Greek philosophy contributes to gnostic error. To Christians, the individual soul is a unique treasure of value in God's sight, and God's sight is the only thing that matters in the long run.