- Grammar
- First, just read this background: "One of the wise and awful truths which this brown-paper art reveals, is this, that white is a colour. It is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. When, so to speak, your pencil grows red-hot, it draws roses; when it grows white-hot, it draws stars. And one of the two or three defiant verities of the best religious morality, of real Christianity, for example, is exactly this same thing; the chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not seen."
- Now, please copy and punctuate the following: "Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming like Joan of Arc. In a word God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously I had almost said so gaudily as when He paints in white."
* Read together and work in class
HW: CBC --28
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