One intellectual lightship

I was reading Adam Bede on the bus this morning, with it's lovely little spiel on the methodists of the time, and Seth and had just declared his love for Dinah so beautifully, and it had all been written so exquisitely (this is the end of it "instead of bursting out into wild accusing apostrophes to God and destiny, he is resolving, as he now walks homeward under the solemn starlight, to repress his sadness, to be less bent on having his own will, and to live more for others ..."), and then I was walking down Market St lost in my reverie when I was stopped by an Irishman, with a voice full of that romantic charm that just is an Irish accent and eyes 'like the sea after a storm', to ask for directions ... and then I get to work and have to edit a case on something so ridiculous as BP trying to register as a trade mark a particular shade of green. Haven't we all got better things to do?! All the world should stop work and read novels I say!

But, speaking of intellectual lightships, I was quite beside myself the other day to happen across an advertisment for "How should we then live?", that seminal work by Francis Schaeffer, available on DVD from America. I have wanted to get a hold of it for many years and it seems to be completely unavailable here and only heard of on VHS. If anybody else is excited about this you can order it here. I had the great privilege of going to L'abri in Switzerland for a month some years ago (too late to meet Francis unfortunately) and it was one of the most rewarding months of my life. It's worth going there simply to look out the window, because the vision of the Alps that meets your eyes is truly awe-inspiring, and then what goes on there makes it an experience rich in every way ... But I am just advertising the DVDs not L'abri in this particular blog (maybe more on that later). If I order them I might organise a little Sydney viewing, and we can have our own L'abri ...