Associate Professor of Italian
and
Chairperson
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Boston College
Lyons Hall 304
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804

tel. 617-552-6346
fax. 617-552-2977

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"Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another!
Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious,
effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed
is quickened and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and
glowing tasseled flower.  Ideas are often poor ghosts; our sun-filled
eyes cannot discern them; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and
cannot make themselves felt.  But sometimes they are made flesh;
they breathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with
soft responsive hands, they look at us with sad, sincere eyes, and speak
to us in appealing tones; they are clothed in a living human soul, with
all its conflicts, its faith and its love.  Then their presence is a power,
then they shake us like a passion, and we are drawn after them with
gentle compulsion, as flame is drawn to flame."

George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life

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