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That Perfect Christmas/ Hannukah/Kwanza Present; (and even "Festivus for the Rest of Us")
Topic Started: Nov 30 2005, 06:12 PM (614 Views)
FrankM
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I'm glad I checked back for anything worthwhile I missed.

I traced back from George's Amazon dot com web site and found this:

http://www.liturgicalenvirons.com/home.asp

As usual, the most impressive people are among the most modest.

Congratulations Steve, in general!
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
musicasacra
Dec 3 2005, 09:36 AM
I love the title of the Italian translation -- The Architecture of the Mystical Body -- it sounds way cooler in Italian, of course.

IT's Italian is pretty good, by the way. He got us through Italy very well this summer on his Italian . . . I loved just listening to him order food.

He also sweet talked his way in Italian into some closed buildings in Rome, etc. . . . he's such a charmer, they always gave in to his requests.

Did you all know that I had read IT's book several months before I met him? I loved it so much I bought six copies and gave them to friends. When I met IT, I didn't catch on to who he was because the way his last name is pronounced is different than how it's spelled.

I was actually telling him that if he wanted to discuss church architecture with me, he first needed to read Architecture in Communion because it's essential to understanding the subject. I felt like such a goof when I realized he wrote it! IT was flattered. :wink:

What a great story! I dunno how I'd go about telling someone that I actually wrote the book, after a comment like that!
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Dec 5 2005, 01:55 PM
musicasacra
Dec 3 2005, 09:36 AM
I love the title of the Italian translation -- The Architecture of the Mystical Body -- it sounds way cooler in Italian, of course.

IT's Italian is pretty good, by the way.  He got us through Italy very well this summer on his Italian . . . I loved just listening to him order food. 

He also sweet talked his way in Italian into some closed buildings in Rome, etc. . . .  he's such a charmer, they always gave in to his requests. 

Did you all know that I had read IT's book several months before I met him?  I loved it so much I bought six copies and gave them to friends.  When I met IT, I didn't catch on to who he was because the way his last name is pronounced is different than how it's spelled. 

I was actually telling him that if he wanted to discuss church architecture with me, he first needed to read Architecture in Communion because it's essential to understanding the subject.  I felt like such a goof when I realized he wrote it!  IT was flattered.  :wink:

What a great story! I dunno how I'd go about telling someone that I actually wrote the book, after a comment like that!

I didn't -- I kissed her and she figured it out for herself. Bright gal. :smokin:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Aqua Letifer
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One way of doin' it, I s'pose. :wink:
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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kentcouncil
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Dec 5 2005, 03:18 PM
I didn't -- I kissed her and she figured it out for herself. Bright gal. :smokin:

Yeah... but you do that to everyone who buys your book! :P

(Just kidding, Steve! Congratulations! I'd like to pick up a copy (in English) myself... but don't get any ideas, Romeo.)
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

- P.G. Wodehouse
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Aqua Letifer
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Yes, in all seriousness, is there an english translation someone could get their hands on?
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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musicasacra
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Dec 5 2005, 01:53 PM
Yes, in all seriousness, is there an english translation someone could get their hands on?

The English translation is available through amazon.com, if you search for the title: Architecture in Communion

And, Frank, I'm glad you found the official IvoryThumper website! Very cool photos, etc.
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musicasacra
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HOLY CARP!!!
kentcouncil
Dec 5 2005, 01:24 PM
ivorythumper
Dec 5 2005, 03:18 PM
I didn't -- I kissed her and she figured it out for herself.  Bright gal.  :smokin:

Yeah... but you do that to everyone who buys your book! :P

(Just kidding, Steve! Congratulations! I'd like to pick up a copy (in English) myself... but don't get any ideas, Romeo.)

Don't worry guys -- he doesn't smooch all of his book buyers.

IT was waiting for the first happy, bouncy, Swedish woman from the prairie who had bought the most books. That was me. :wub:
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