Backward Mutters

  • Pullman and the Gospel, E Pluribus Unum 2

    Whether Pullman will recognize it or not, everyone has a functional savior. For the church Pullman rightly condemns, it’s not Jesus but rather power and influence. “Woe to you rich,” Jesus said. Not that having money is a sin, rather the sin is how one uses the money to manipulate…

  • Fall Riding

    We’re in the transition. The colors are really popping. And even this camera phone picture almost does reality justice.

  • Slow Twitch, Final Phase

    It’s ALIVE!!!!! Today it was time to tackle the shifting. I had cut the cable housings to the correct length last night and realized that I needed barrel adjusters for the housings to fit into on the down tube. A quick stop at Bicycle, Toy, and Hobby this morning and…

  • Contemnoterraism: Pullman doesn’t get Lewis, E Pluribus Unum

    In the article I referenced earlier Pullman states, “Narnia has always seemed to me to be marked by a hatred of the physical world.” Philip Pullman Huh? A hatred of the physical world? Now there’s got to be a name for it, and if you know what it is would…

  • Pullman on C.S. Lewis

    These are soundbites, but they are quotes nonetheless. “I realised that what he was up to was propaganda in the cause of the religion he believed in.” “It is monumentally disparaging of girls and women. It is blatantly racist. One girl was sent to hell because she was getting interested…