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  • 30-04-2012 10:15pm
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    sadie06
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    I have referenced this line from God is Not Great in a dissertation:

    'The loss of faith can be compensated by the newer and finer wonders that we have before us, as well as by immersion in the near-miraculous works of Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Tolstoy and Proust, all of which was also “man-made” (though one sometimes wonders, as in the case of Mozart).'


    Dissertation due in tomorrow, and I find myself without the book, and without the page number for my footnote!

    If anyone has a copy and could kindly tell me the page number, I'd be delighted!

    Thanks all.


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    MagicMarker
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    Page 151 according to my PDF copy.


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    Randy Anders
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    Yeah it's on page 151, just checked my book there


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    mehfesto
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    I've had a look - only Shakespeare is in the index, but of the 6 pages he's listed in, none refer to that line. Have you any more info on it? What chapter even?


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    Roger Hassenforder
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    pg 151. 1st ed. i think, 2007
    chapter: the twadriness of the miraculous


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    Kivaro
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    Yep, I have the book in front of me: Page 151.


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    Turtwig
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    I thought there was something about Atheists being immoral, dishonest and untrustworthy. Yet all the atheists here have given the user the correct page. Something is terribly, terribly, wrong with the world.


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    Jimoslimos
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    ebook version, so no page numbers here. %read doesn't quite cut it at an academic level I guess.

    "Chapter 10: The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell"


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    sadie06
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    Thank you all so much! Relieved to just be able to press print now!

    My dissertation is on Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. Give it a spin on youtube, and you just might end up voicing the same sentiments as Christopher! ;)


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    [Deleted User]
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    Jernal wrote: »
    I thought there was something about Atheists being immoral, dishonest and untrustworthy. Yet all the atheists here have given the user the correct page. Something is terribly, terribly, wrong with the world.

    The fact that all the copies of the book agree with each other and are consistent is surely a sign of our Faith being well-placed?


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    Dades
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    Jernal wrote: »
    I thought there was something about Atheists being immoral, dishonest and untrustworthy. Yet all the atheists here have given the user the correct page. Something is terribly, terribly, wrong with the world.
    You forget everyone's referencing their illegally downloaded ebook. :pac:


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    MagicMarker
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    Dades wrote: »
    You forget everyone's referencing their illegally downloaded ebook. :pac:
    How dare you, I'll have you know I scanned every single page myself. :pac:


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    sbsquarepants
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    Jernal wrote: »
    I thought there was something about Atheists being immoral, dishonest and untrustworthy. Yet all the atheists here have given the user the correct page. Something is terribly, terribly, wrong with the world.


    Page 11 - i swear!


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