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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24 February 2019

Two Brief Observations on Galadriel

It is curious that Galadriel uses her mirror to test the only two members of the Company who will ever bear the Ring. Does this fall u...

05 January 2019

Penumbra: "Dispute it like a man."

MALCOLM: Dispute it like a man. MACDUFF: I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That...

27 December 2018

Idiotic Book Blurbs

Writing blurbs for the covers of books reached Pythonesque heights of self-parody years ago, so to laugh at their idiocy is nothing...

07 December 2018

The Gaffer should give lessons (FR 1.iii.69)

Gandalf's 'good morning' exchange with Bilbo in the first chapter of The Hobbit is rightly famous as much for its humo...

29 November 2018

Review: Beside the Ocean of Time

Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown My rating: 5 of 5 stars I just read this book for the se...

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