“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.”
—C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
—C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
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The Future from 1958
An old Disney animation about “magic highways.”
Sheepherding Joins the 2121 Century
It’s about time.
Trying Out Hybrid
It’s cool so far.
Medieval Murder Swan
November 16 commemorates the death of St. Hugh of Lincoln–not to be confused with Little St. Hugh of Lincoln who Chaucer wrote about–a darn popular saint in England, but not really anywhere else. Since he lived in the late twelfth century, his Vita (saintly biography) is more concerned with his skill as an administrator than [...]
Oh If Only This Were True
“Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer”
From The Onion
Augustine & Virgil
Here is a post about Augustine’s Confessions being patterned after Virgil’s Aeneid.
Fascinating.
Midway
These pictures of dead birds on Midway Island are sobering. They remind me of a Calvin & Hobbes Sunday strip that opened with a stark and moving illustration of a dead sparrow. But while the comic strip was sobering, moving, and thought-provoking, these images are sobering, unsettling, and perplexing. Given the cultural inertia behind the [...]
The Music of Joe Pug…
is worth checking out.
Disney Buys Marvel
Have you heard the news?
Of course, the very first thing on my mind was crossovers:
The Emperor’s New Groove and Marvel 1602.
Wolverine as the Beast in Beauty and the Beast.
Dr. Strange teams up with the gargoyles from Gargoyles.
Nick Fury (as played by Sam Jackson), Frozone, and Jules Winnfield (Miramax is owned by Disney) team up to [...]
Donating Textbooks
So, here I have a small pile of textbooks from previous semesters, discovered while cleaning my room. I’d usually sell them on Amazon. But a professor mentioned that there are organizations which will take used textbooks and send them to people who can’t afford such things. Found a nifty list on nationalserviceresources.org. For your convenience:
Goodwill
Books [...]