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A Roman View of the Ruins of the Temple of Venus and Rome with the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine by Herman van Swanevelt, 1634 [National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan]
By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing, February 11, 2025
Anthony Esolen is a lecturer, translator, and writer. Among his books are Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture, and Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World, and most recently The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord. He is Distinguished Professor at Thales College. Be sure to visit his new website, Word and Song.
One of our neighbors in Canada, where we live for part of the year, is thinking of buying the cottage next door, the homestead of an old man who isn’t in good health and who hasn’t been to that house in a long time. In 2005, when we were new to the neighborhood, I helped him and some men he had hired to shingle his roof, knowing that I’d learn from the job and that I’d have to do the same for my own house soon.
Up there, you have to “butter” the shingles on the inside with tar, or else the winds off the bay will lift them off. Even so, they wear out quickly, as they have done with this house. Water has gotten inside. …
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