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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53538 is a reply to message #53536 ] Sun, 06 January 2013 21:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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. . . he explained blandly that when he’d got the loaf out of the freezer he’d inadvertently pulled out a buttered baguette. Snork. Much better-quality bread than we usually have, but the butter I admit was a little distracting.


I love the idea that he was laid-back enough to just go with it! Religion shouldn't be stiff. Smile

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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53539 is a reply to message #53536 ] Sun, 06 January 2013 23:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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And this is so with the best Editors in the business. Intelligent, sensitive, skilled readers and analysts…and if they don’t get something, how can readers be expected to?

YES. THIS IS THE THING THAT REALLY KEEPS YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT. IF AN INTELLIGENT EDITOR, PAYING ATTENTION, DOESN’T GET IT . . . AAAAAAAAAAAAUGH.


On the other hand, I find from a work perspective that it's easier to understand something sometimes when you're NOT reading it with a Purpose. Sometimes I've read things that I couldn't make any sense out of when I was trying to dissect them, but when I just did a straight read-through later everything was fine.

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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53540 is a reply to message #53538 ] Mon, 07 January 2013 01:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Angelia wrote on Mon, 07 January 2013 02:51

. . . he explained blandly that when he’d got the loaf out of the freezer he’d inadvertently pulled out a buttered baguette. Snork. Much better-quality bread than we usually have, but the butter I admit was a little distracting.


I love the idea that he was laid-back enough to just go with it! Religion shouldn't be stiff. Smile


SNORK indeed!! *splutters tea, narrowly avoiding keyboard*

But what about blessing it and all that - that doesn't matter ...?? Could have been any sort of bread .... ?? Thought it had to be those little round wafer thingies ...?


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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53541 is a reply to message #53536 ] Mon, 07 January 2013 11:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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In Germany they actually sell those round wafer thingies to be the base of certain kinds of cookies. A few American Catholics in our group of gastronomic tourists looked to be worried about eating them ... also about the nuns with beer steins.

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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53542 is a reply to message #53536 ] Mon, 07 January 2013 11:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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...he explained blandly that when he’d got the loaf out of the freezer he’d inadvertently pulled out a buttered baguette.

My aunt was for a while the person responsible for bringing (homemade) bread to be used at the weekly communion service at her chapel. On the day *she* didn't pay attention to what she was pulling out of the freezer, the congregation had cinnamon-raisin swirl bread for communion.

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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53543 is a reply to message #53539 ] Mon, 07 January 2013 12:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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danceswithpahis wrote on Sun, 06 January 2013 23:22

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And this is so with the best Editors in the business. Intelligent, sensitive, skilled readers and analysts…and if they don’t get something, how can readers be expected to?

YES. THIS IS THE THING THAT REALLY KEEPS YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT. IF AN INTELLIGENT EDITOR, PAYING ATTENTION, DOESN’T GET IT . . . AAAAAAAAAAAAUGH.


On the other hand, I find from a work perspective that it's easier to understand something sometimes when you're NOT reading it with a Purpose. Sometimes I've read things that I couldn't make any sense out of when I was trying to dissect them, but when I just did a straight read-through later everything was fine.


Yes, this. You actually process with a different part of the brain when you're reading for enjoyment than you do when you're reading "with a Purpose."

Which would indicate to me that the intelligent editor, paying attention, is probably just reading a book very differently (not better, not worse, just differently) from a reader who's picked something up for enjoyment purposes.
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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53544 is a reply to message #53541 ] Mon, 07 January 2013 12:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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skating librarian wrote on Mon, 07 January 2013 11:11

In Germany they actually sell those round wafer thingies to be the base of certain kinds of cookies. A few American Catholics in our group of gastronomic tourists looked to be worried about eating them ... also about the nuns with beer steins.


As an American Catholic myself I must admit I might find that a little alarming... if for no other reason than I can't imagine it would possibly taste good. The nuns with the beer steins, less alarming. I did go to a Jesuit college after all Smile
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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53549 is a reply to message #53536 ] Mon, 07 January 2013 20:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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". . . he explained blandly that when he’d got the loaf out of the freezer he’d inadvertently pulled out a buttered baguette. Snork. Much better-quality bread than we usually have, but the butter I admit was a little distracting."

My little sister once exclaimed after Communion: "Mm! Jesus is sourdough!"

(Small-town Methodist church in Upstate NY. Our Communion bread comes from the local Price Chopper, dunked in Concord grape juice. Tastes like bread + jelly, basically.)

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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53571 is a reply to message #53536 ] Tue, 08 January 2013 12:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Much better-quality bread than we usually have, but the butter I admit was a little distracting.

Yes - unexpectedly good bread can be very distracting! I have been there and done that - jerked me right out of what I was supposed to be thinking!

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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53580 is a reply to message #53544 ] Wed, 09 January 2013 02:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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As an American Catholic myself I must admit I might find that a little alarming... if for no other reason than I can't imagine it would possibly taste good.


My mom, raised Catholic in New Jersey, has fond memories of "waferbread" - the same stuff as communion wafers, but in squares (I think - maybe in circles) - sold as a normal food. Why not? Until it's blessed, it's perfectly ordinary. And while perhaps not the tastiest thing in the world, given matzoh, zweiback and melba toast I don't see a problem with waferbread.

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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53586 is a reply to message #53580 ] Wed, 09 January 2013 20:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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jjmcgaffey wrote on Wed, 09 January 2013 01:29

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As an American Catholic myself I must admit I might find that a little alarming... if for no other reason than I can't imagine it would possibly taste good.


My mom, raised Catholic in New Jersey, has fond memories of "waferbread" - the same stuff as communion wafers, but in squares (I think - maybe in circles) - sold as a normal food. Why not? Until it's blessed, it's perfectly ordinary. And while perhaps not the tastiest thing in the world, given matzoh, zweiback and melba toast I don't see a problem with waferbread.


Actually, matzoh would be a more appropriate bread - since the roots of Communion are in the Jewish Passover Pesach. My husband would never use a bread baked with yeast for Communion.
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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53590 is a reply to message #53586 ] Thu, 10 January 2013 00:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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librarykat wrote on Wed, 09 January 2013 19:02


Actually, matzoh would be a more appropriate bread - since the roots of Communion are in the Jewish Passover Pesach. My husband would never use a bread baked with yeast for Communion.


Yes--Catholic communion wafers are unleavened. And must be made from wheat flour, just as communion wine must be wine (except in rare instances) and made from grapes.


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Re: The Race to the Deadline Continues [message #53632 is a reply to message #53540 ] Fri, 11 January 2013 21:13 Go to previous message
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CathyR wrote on Sun, 06 January 2013 22:43

Angelia wrote on Mon, 07 January 2013 02:51

. . . he explained blandly that when he’d got the loaf out of the freezer he’d inadvertently pulled out a buttered baguette. Snork. Much better-quality bread than we usually have, but the butter I admit was a little distracting.


I love the idea that he was laid-back enough to just go with it! Religion shouldn't be stiff. Smile


SNORK indeed!! *splutters tea, narrowly avoiding keyboard*

But what about blessing it and all that - that doesn't matter ...?? Could have been any sort of bread .... ?? Thought it had to be those little round wafer thingies ...?


One of my churches had this World Communion service each year where we'd have several different kinds of bread that we'd share (including after the service). The pastor said that it was a way to keep ourselves aware that there is not One Way of Doing Things. He also said something along the lines of, "It's the Lord's Supper; I don't think Jesus would mind us coming to the table and eating more than one tiny bite."

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