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Showing posts with label The Consolation of Philosophy. Show all posts

Showing posts with label The Consolation of Philosophy. Show all posts

30 November 2020

Predestination as Algorithm -- Boethius, Consolation, 5 pr. ii

In replying to Boethius' question about Free Will and Fate, Lady Philosophy states: 'There is freedom,' said she; 'nor, ...

26 November 2020

From Lady Philosophy to Gollum: 'The roots of those mountains must be roots indeed' (FR 1.ii.54)

In telling Gollum's story to Frodo, Gandalf introduces him as follows: 'Long after, but still very long ago, there lived by the bank...

23 June 2017

Sand of Pearls in Elvenland, or, Boethius on the Shore

The Shores of Valinor -- copyright Ted Nasmith Being a lifelong lover of the Sea and the shore, I have always found Tolkien's...

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