Category: Authors
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William and Emily
“William and Emily” from Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology. My bride and I recited this in a produced recitation of a collection of readings from the work as a whole over twenty years ago. There is something aboutDeath like love itself!If with some one with whom you have known…
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On adult fairy tales
When a the movie is better than a book “This grew out of a conversation I had yesterday with a student over lunch. He was talking about why the books are nearly always better than the movies that are made based on them. I said that this is true, but…
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Of dragons and stories
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” G.K. Chesteron
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How can right belief be maintained…?
Michael Ward on C.S. Lewis’ The Silver Chair: “How can right belief be maintained in a hostile environment? It is not through superior insight that the heroes win the day, but through corage, through sacrifice. Philosophizing and rhetoric cannot settle this dispute because the Witch’s logic is impeccable — only…
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From whence this evil?
Unde hoc malum? A great little Latin phrase for big pressing problem: from whence this evil? “Where does this wrongdoing come from? What is its wellspring, the source of its ongoing prevalence and power? The doctrine of original sin is, if nothing else, and intellectually serious attempt to answer such…
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