Backward Mutters

  • In the Year 3019 or 1419 S.R.

    Today is Annunciation Day [see: Luke 1:26f]. It is also the day in which the Great Ring fell, along with Gollum, into the fires of Orodruin. In Appendix B of the Lord of the Rings, Tolkein writes, “After the fall of the Dark Tower and the passing of Sauron the Shadow was lifted…

  • On Dante’s Purgatorio

    “Press him [the one pontificating Dante without knowing the whole], rather, for an intelligent opinion of the Ship of Souls and Peter’s Gate; on Buonconte, Sapia, and Arnaut Daniel; on the Prayer of the Proud, the theology of Free Judgement, Dante’s three Dreams, the Sacred Forest, and te symbolism of…

  • On Dante’s Purgatorio

    “Press him [the one pontificating Dante without knowing the whole], rather, for an intelligent opinion of the Ship of Souls and Peter’s Gate; on Buonconte, Sapia, and Arnaut Daniel; on the Prayer of the Proud, the theology of Free Judgement, Dante’s three Dreams, the Sacred Forest, and te symbolism of…

  • Print Your Organ

    Dr. Anthony Atala is the director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Here is a talk he presented on the work that is being done at Wake Forest.http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf (HT. Journalnow)Print Your Organ was originally published on Grace Presbyterian Church

  • Print Your Organ

    Dr. Anthony Atala is the director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Here is a talk he presented on the work that is being done at Wake Forest.http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf (HT. Journalnow)