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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28 September 2018

The Dark Lord's Bread and Butter -- 'He'll eat us all'

'Don't take the Precious to Him! He'll eat us all, if He gets it, eat all the world.' ( TT 4.iii.637) Whether by ...

26 September 2018

It Comes in Slabs? Hobbits and Butter

‘Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched , if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t...

18 September 2018

Houses of Mirth and Lamentation

Copyright Donato Giancola A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy tu...

13 September 2018

Waiting for Aeschere's Head -- Beowulf 1419b-1423

I've been re-reading Beowulf lately, my second time through the poem in Old English. It brings joy and laughter to my geeky so...

09 September 2018

The Annunciation and the Swan

A friend recently lent me a book of poems called 'Mary's Dust', by Melinda Mueller. Each of the poems treats the experien...

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