The Hippopotamus
“I’m very sorry you couldn’t make the service itself, but I do understand that your life is immensely busy.
Mr. Bridges, my English master, tells me that what you sent is a first edition, which is extremely valuable. I am very touched by your generosity. I have never read the Four Quartets before, although we did The Waste Land for GCSE which I enjoyed enormously, so I am looking forward very much to reading and understanding these new poems. Are they connected at all to Beethoven’s quart...ets, I wonder? My favourite poet is Wordsworth at the moment.
The confirmation was magnificent. The Bishop of St. Alban’s spoke to us all beforehand and reminded us of the solemnity of the occasion. When the moment came for him to lay his hand upon my head I found myself crying. I hope you don’t think that was wrong of me. I think I was moved more by the idea of the apostolic succession than by anything else. Christ laid a hand on Peter’s head, Peter became Bishop of Rome and he laid a hand on the head of everyone else who became a bishop.MoreLess
Mr. Bridges, my English master, tells me that what you sent is a first edition, which is extremely valuable. I am very touched by your generosity. I have never read the Four Quartets before, although we did The Waste Land for GCSE which I enjoyed enormously, so I am looking forward very much to reading and understanding these new poems. Are they connected at all to Beethoven’s quart...ets, I wonder? My favourite poet is Wordsworth at the moment.
The confirmation was magnificent. The Bishop of St. Alban’s spoke to us all beforehand and reminded us of the solemnity of the occasion. When the moment came for him to lay his hand upon my head I found myself crying. I hope you don’t think that was wrong of me. I think I was moved more by the idea of the apostolic succession than by anything else. Christ laid a hand on Peter’s head, Peter became Bishop of Rome and he laid a hand on the head of everyone else who became a bishop.MoreLess
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