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I’ve called this emergency meeting to discuss something that’s been on my brilliant mind: I feel like I’m the only one in the Parish Development Committee who is really making an effort to establish a Narcissist Support Group. We’re all on the committee, we all voted to move forward with…
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True fantasies finish happily, Tolkien argues, thus providing consolation for life’s tragedy and sorrow. Yet their felicitous outcome is not escapist. The ultimate victory is always produced by a disaster, by a sudden and cataclysmic turn of events, which issues in surprising deliverance. Tolkien invents a word to describe this…
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allthingseurope: Hopperstad Stave Church, Norway (by Peter Nijenhuis)
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policymic: It’s June and Lake Superior is still full of ice Summer is finally here — except at Lake Superior. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced last Saturday that all of the Great Lakes were finally ice-free — breaking an unprecedented seven-month streak of ice coverage. Typically, ice…
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mediumaevum: Medieval Orthodox illuminations? Look closer. These are actually “Lord of the Rings” illustrations by an Ukrainian artist Sergei Iukhimov. You can view many more here. Mind. Blown.
Backward Mutters 