Frank Turk has tagged me to play the “Seven sevens” game. I’m not sure that I really welcome this intrusion into my zone of privacy, but I’ll try to be a good sport about it.
I don’t like surveys. They don’t ask the questions I’d ask the way I’d ask them, so I’ve done what any self-respecting respondent would to: I’ve cheated by making some changes of my own. Made a few substitutions. Cut back on the hyperbole. Generated multiples of seven.
I. SEVEN THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE
1.Write a devotional
2.Revisit my old stomping-grounds
3.Attend a high school reunion.
4.See my remaining parent safely into glory
5.Compose more music
6.Explore crystallography
7.See Naples
II. SEVEN THINGS I CAN’T DO
1.Do nothing
2.Make small-talk
3.Paint
4.Whistle
5.Abide contemporary Christian music
6.Do computer graphics
7.Be a better person
III.SEVEN THINGS I LIKE IN A WOMAN
1.Godliness
2.A nice speaking voice (high-pitched nasal twangs need not apply!)
3.A nice singing voice (e.g., Caballé, Milanov, Ponselle, Price, Sutherland).
4.A capacity to beautify her surroundings by her prismatic personality.
5.A gentle spirit
6.An ability to write like Anne Bradstreet & Christina Rossetti
7.Botticellian locks
IV. SEVEN BOOKS I LIKE
1.The Bible
2.Pilgrim’s Progress
3.Four Quartets (Eliot)
4.Praeterita (Ruskin)
5.Perelandra/Voyage of Dawn Treader
6.Mithradates (Racine)
7.Norstrilla/Quest of the Three Worlds (Cordwainer Smith)
8.The Temple (Herbert)
9.Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather)
10.The Song of Roland
11.The Tempest
12.Silex Scintillans (Vaughan)
13.The Waves (Woolf)
14. Diary of a Country Priest (Bernanos)
15.The Last Puritan (Santayana)
17.Letters of Samuel Rutherford
18.To Be Near Unto God (Kuyper)
19.Pensées (Pascal)
20.Three Dialogues between Hylas & Philonous (Berkeley)
21.The City of God
V. SEVEN MOVIES/TV SHOWS I LIKE
1.Garden of the Finzi-Continis
2.Twin Peaks
3.La Femme Nikita
4.Last of the Mohicans
5.Ship of Fools
6.The Third Man
7.Donkey Skin (Deneuve)
8.The Garden of Allah (Dietrich)
9.In this House of Brede
10.Monsignor Quixote
11.Our Man in Havana
12.The Avengers
13.Ladyhawke
14.Orpheus (Cocteau)
15.Touch of Evil
16.Dark City
17.To End All Wars
18.Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy/Smiley’s People
19.The Village
20.Hellboy
21.Due South
VI. SEVEN COMPOSERS I LIKE
1.Bach
2.Handel
3.Brahms
4.Buxtehude
5.Mendelssohn
7.Vivaldi
8. Albinoni
9.Correlli
10.Faure
11.Haydn
12.Schubert
13.Telemann
14.Poulenc
15.Vaughan-Williams
16.Ravel (songs)
17.Berlioz (songs)
18. Gilbert & Sullivan
19.S. S. Wesley
20.C.P.E. Bach
21. Hymnwriters (Watts, Wesley, Williams)
VII. SEVEN PAINTERS I LIKE
1.Da Vinci
2.Botticelli
3.El Greco
4.Rembrandt
5.Monet
6.Renoir
7.Turner
Ah, Kiri--beautiful to the ear, and beautiful to the eye!
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