A Jesuit & A Boy

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A Catholic boy from Minnesota

"Why do I make lists?" Amory asked him one night.
"Lists of all sorts of things?"

"Because you're a mediaevalist," Monsignor answered.
"We both are. It's the passion for classifying and finding a type."

"It's a desire to get something definite."

"It's the nucleus of scholastic philosophy."

"I was beginning to think I was growing eccentric
  till I came up here. It was a pose, I guess."

"Don't worry about that; for you not posing
  may be the biggest pose of all. Pose—"

"Yes?"

"But do the next thing."
 F. Scott Fitzgerald
 This Side of Paradise

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