Just arrived today: Spiritual Friendship by St Aelred of Rievaulx. It's unfortunate that so many today take Aelred's "friendship" to mean "sodomy". As Eve Tushnet put it delicately, "apparently it... speaks to a wide range of people." Her quick review is there at the link, along with a mention of Alice von Hildebrand's essay on friendship. One blurb on the back of the book mentions Cicero's essay on friendship, so it's high atop Mt Toberead, too; just east of the pile of laundry, Mt Neverest.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.—Lord Peter Wimsey
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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.—St John of Patmos
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