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bookshelf-in-progress · 10 days ago

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Thinking about how Marastel's coming-of-age virtue name meant "joy", because with her melancholic temperament, she struggled with that virtue. And then her life was full of struggles and tragedies that gave her endless opportunities to practice that virtue.

#arateph #i say as though i didn't design it that way #but it just came to mind today during the reading about the visitation #all the leaping and singing for joy #and the marian elements of marastel's story #and then out of nowhere i'm feeling really sad right now #(probably half sleep-deprivation)#but anyway really resonating with the active cultivation of joy as a virtue #(which probably doesn't count as a virtue under strict theology/philosopy definitions)#(but for the purposes of the story and the naming practice it works)

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