Luke Merrell
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Luke Merrell
@lukemerrell.bsky.social
· Jul 3
📚🕯️Basement Library updates 🕯️📚
New shelf, more lighting, more artwork, and a record player.
New shelf, more lighting, more artwork, and a record player.
📚🕯️Basement Library updates 🕯️📚
New shelf, more lighting, more artwork, and a record player.
New shelf, more lighting, more artwork, and a record player.
July 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
📚🕯️Basement Library updates 🕯️📚
New shelf, more lighting, more artwork, and a record player.
New shelf, more lighting, more artwork, and a record player.
Current reading stack
June 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Current reading stack
enjoy a tidy space, but I also love little evidences of a lived-in space. So, sometimes I find myself purposely leaving an empty drink can behind to for the experience.
June 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
enjoy a tidy space, but I also love little evidences of a lived-in space. So, sometimes I find myself purposely leaving an empty drink can behind to for the experience.
June 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Coleridge & coffee
June 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Coleridge & coffee
RIP Helen. My brief interactions with you were enough to let me know you were a lovely person and great philosopher.
June 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
RIP Helen. My brief interactions with you were enough to let me know you were a lovely person and great philosopher.
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June 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A Life Lived Sacramentally
Believing in and Being Aware of God in All Things
open.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
April 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
April 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The rhythmic sway between death and life, darkness and light, suffering and flourishing.
The ringing of my Savior’s voice: “Blessed are those who mourn.”
The piercing clarity that somehow, even in life’s ugliest moments, there is Beauty.
thelaysoflanguage.substack.com/p/a-reflecti...
The ringing of my Savior’s voice: “Blessed are those who mourn.”
The piercing clarity that somehow, even in life’s ugliest moments, there is Beauty.
thelaysoflanguage.substack.com/p/a-reflecti...
A Reflection on Loss
It has been almost three years since the death of my mother.
thelaysoflanguage.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The rhythmic sway between death and life, darkness and light, suffering and flourishing.
The ringing of my Savior’s voice: “Blessed are those who mourn.”
The piercing clarity that somehow, even in life’s ugliest moments, there is Beauty.
thelaysoflanguage.substack.com/p/a-reflecti...
The ringing of my Savior’s voice: “Blessed are those who mourn.”
The piercing clarity that somehow, even in life’s ugliest moments, there is Beauty.
thelaysoflanguage.substack.com/p/a-reflecti...
I had a good feeling about this one, and I am so glad the feeling was accurate.
Austen’s ironic wit is on full display here as she simultaneously defends the novel while also parodying the Gothic literature. 🧵
Austen’s ironic wit is on full display here as she simultaneously defends the novel while also parodying the Gothic literature. 🧵
February 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I had a good feeling about this one, and I am so glad the feeling was accurate.
Austen’s ironic wit is on full display here as she simultaneously defends the novel while also parodying the Gothic literature. 🧵
Austen’s ironic wit is on full display here as she simultaneously defends the novel while also parodying the Gothic literature. 🧵
“For that eternal act [of Creation]—the summoning of all created natures out of the primordial darkness—is most certainly an entirely free and unmerited gift of being, imparted to those who were not and who in themselves had no claim to be…”
-David Bentley Hart
-David Bentley Hart
February 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
“For that eternal act [of Creation]—the summoning of all created natures out of the primordial darkness—is most certainly an entirely free and unmerited gift of being, imparted to those who were not and who in themselves had no claim to be…”
-David Bentley Hart
-David Bentley Hart
“The human lives in time but [has been] destined to eternity. [God] therefore, I believe, wants them to attend to chiefly two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
February 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“The human lives in time but [has been] destined to eternity. [God] therefore, I believe, wants them to attend to chiefly two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
This exchange in Northanger Abbey is such a fun commentary on the use of language
“I do not understand you.”
“Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well.”
“Me? - yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
“Bravo! - an excellent satire on modern language.”
“I do not understand you.”
“Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well.”
“Me? - yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
“Bravo! - an excellent satire on modern language.”
February 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This exchange in Northanger Abbey is such a fun commentary on the use of language
“I do not understand you.”
“Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well.”
“Me? - yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
“Bravo! - an excellent satire on modern language.”
“I do not understand you.”
“Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well.”
“Me? - yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
“Bravo! - an excellent satire on modern language.”
The writing vibes are immaculate
February 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The writing vibes are immaculate
Minutes before my favorite weekday event.
Love Tuesday night discussion group.
Love Tuesday night discussion group.
February 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Minutes before my favorite weekday event.
Love Tuesday night discussion group.
Love Tuesday night discussion group.
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For this Spell in the Library you find me with the great mythologist and storyteller Dr Martin Shaw! With Martin Shaw!
youtu.be/J1oq4b9muwE
youtu.be/J1oq4b9muwE
With Martin Shaw!
YouTube video by Malcolm Guite
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February 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
For this Spell in the Library you find me with the great mythologist and storyteller Dr Martin Shaw! With Martin Shaw!
youtu.be/J1oq4b9muwE
youtu.be/J1oq4b9muwE
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“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
January 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Just discovered the “Have your cake and eat it too” saying goes back at least into the early 1600s.
“The Size” - George Herbert
“The Size” - George Herbert
January 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Just discovered the “Have your cake and eat it too” saying goes back at least into the early 1600s.
“The Size” - George Herbert
“The Size” - George Herbert
A petition to move the philosophy section at used bookstores away from the astrology and tarot section. Thanks.
January 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A petition to move the philosophy section at used bookstores away from the astrology and tarot section. Thanks.
My modest treasury of rare C.S. Lewis books. 📚 With some bonus items at the end. 🧵
January 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
My modest treasury of rare C.S. Lewis books. 📚 With some bonus items at the end. 🧵
Obsessed with how snow completely changes the landscape. It somehow transports you to another world.
January 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Obsessed with how snow completely changes the landscape. It somehow transports you to another world.