August 24, 2002

• Cruciatus in Crucem

  
  

  From Battlefield Vacations, Edinburgh:

  
  

  On the film “Braveheart” –

  
  

  If you’ve ever wondered about what exactly “drawn and quartered” means, there’s a good demonstration at the end.

  
  
  

   

  
  

  From my journal note of June 28, 2002:

  
  

   

  
  

  Page 162 of the May 2002 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine —
  

  
  

  NIGHT  TABLE READING –

  
  

  MICHAEL GERSON
  Head White House speechwriter –

  
  

  
  God’s Grandeur and Other Poems, by Gerard Manley Hopkins (Dover)

  
  

  
  “In the last two weeks, I’ve been returning to Hopkins.  Even in the ‘world’s wildfire,” he asserts that

  
  

  
  

  ‘this Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
  Is immortal diamond.’

  
  

  A comfort.”

  
  

   

  
  

  “Cruciatus in crucem.”

  
  

  – President Jed Bartlet, The West Wing  (Episode 2.22 , “Two Cathedrals,”
  original airdate May 16, 2001, 9:00 PM EST)

  
  

   

  
  

  For the Latin meaning of this phrase, see

  
  

  Quarreling with God.

  
  

   

  
  

  For the complete script of this episode, see

  
  

  Two Cathedrals.

  
  

   

  
  

  See also my journal note of August 3, 2002, “The Cruciatus Curse,” below.

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