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Guareschi\u27s Mondo Piccolo and the Sacrality of Conscience
This study adopts a Christian hermeneutic to explore sacred themes in several of the 346 Don Camillo short stories that Giovannino Guareschi wrote between 1946 and 1966. Such a critical approach may seem non-traditional to use in analyzing a post-World War II, twentieth-century author. And yet, Guareschi defies convention in many ways beyond his profession as a journalist, humorist and popular author: he openly opposed the anti-clerical and Marxist literary establishment; defined himself as an anti-intellectual; and, as a layperson, he wrote unromantically about matters of faith. Especially as editor of the immensely popular weekly newspaper Candido, he had the perfect forum to reach millions of readers who shared his Christian values and were not part of the intellectual elite. To be sure, Don Camillo stories delight and earn frequent smiles and giggles, but the narrative action in best of them powerfully echoes Jesus of Nazareth’s call to conversion and forgiveness through the way characters heed their consciences
A Survey of Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes
We survey many of the important properties of spherically symmetric
spacetimes as follows. We present several different ways of describing a
spherically symmetric spacetime and the resulting metrics. We then focus our
discussion on an especially useful form of the metric of a spherically
symmetric spacetime in polar-areal coordinates and its properties. In
particular, we show how the metric component functions chosen are extremely
compatible with notions in Newtonian mechanics. We also show the monotonicity
of the Hawking mass in these coordinates. As an example, we discuss how these
coordinates and the metric can be used to solve the spherically symmetric
Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations. We conclude with a brief mention of some
applications of these properties.Comment: 27 pages, 1 figure, Analysis and Mathematical Physics, 201
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