Alas, not me

All literature enchants and delights us, recovers us from the 10,000 things that distract us. The unenchanted life is not worth living.

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25 November 2017

Further Remarkable Daughters

For some time the Letters of C. S. Lewis have been the reading on my nightstand. If I don't read a page or two before I fall asleep, ...

21 November 2017

Quickened to Full Life by War (OFS ¶ 56) -- Living the Iliad

Julian Grenfell Julian Grenfell was a poet and soldier of the Great War, who embraced the idea of battle and the war even as he als...

12 November 2017

Legolas at Night -- C.S. Lewis and the Dreams of the Elves

The other day I was listening to one of Malcolm Guite's marvelous talks -- I say marvelous, as if, absurdly, there were talks of ...

09 November 2017

Thomas of Erceldoune V (25-72)

Image 1 FYTTE THE FIRST Als j me wente þis endres daye, ffull faste in mynd makand my mone In a mery mornynge of Maye, 28 By...

26 October 2017

The More You Read, The More Jokes You Get

Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Hamlet (1948) A friend of mine once told me that the more you read, the more jokes you get. HAMLET: L...

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