As I recall the story, he was speaking of "everything I have written." But I
don't have anything right to hand to double-check this. It seems as though
he may have had some kind of mystical experience. As he understood it,
anyway.

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was told by an insider that Thomas Acquinas, on his deathbed, said of
> Catholicism and/or god, that "It is all straw."
>
> Gene Coyle
>
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > Michael Perelman wrote:
> >> The Wall Street Journal, always on the lookout for good humor, outdid
> >> itself today with an essay by Chester E. Finn Jr., advocating keeping
> >> schools open on Saturday.
> >
> > why not go for 7 days a week? public school classes could be merged
> > with Sunday school. Then they could combine pillorying Darwin and
> > telling students about how Thomas Acquinas spawned the American
> > Revolution.
> >
> > or as the Beatles said, how about 8 days a week?
> >
> > --
> > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
> > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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