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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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, ...

'Der mentsh* trakht un got lakht': Divine Irony and the Ring Verse.

Just this morning I was reflecting on the incantatory lines at the heart of the Ring verse: One Ring to rule them all, one ring to find the...

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...

14 November 2020

First they told us we couldn't punch Nazis

So this morning I saw the following tweet: I commented that the ALREADY DEAD serial killer should be treated more like a vampire. I receive...

28 September 2020

Questions on The Ring, the Ring-verse, and Elision at FR 2.ii.254

1) If the Ring is sentient, as some suppose it to be, why doesn't it react at all when Gandalf recites the Ring incantation in the Blac...

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