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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17 December 2020

Eucatastrophae non sunt multiplicandae praeter necessitatem.

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‘The birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man’s history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This stor...
14 December 2020

A thought on the 'sentience' of the Ring

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To say definitively if the One Ring is or is not sentient may not in the end be possible. To do so would surely require an attentive and tho...
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05 December 2020

The Shortsightedness of Denethor

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Compare the following passages, the first Denethor's words, the second Faramir's.  'I will go now to my pyre. To my pyre! No tom...
30 November 2020

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

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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.

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 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...
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