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Kvothe’s Sex-Life…
A friend of mine texted me saying, “The sexual buildup with denna, auri, fela and devi is getting crazy. Who’s he gonna [sleep with] first? Auri? Fela? Devi? Denna?” I’m gonna tackle this as a lit-guy and try to set my moral biases aside. There are some minor spoilers for WMF (at the start) so…
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Name of the Wind COMIC summary!
Anyone who hasn’t read Name of the Wind should not read this. It might spoil something. Everyone else familiar with the book, Rothfuss just posted this awesome Name of the Wind comic summary. For those needing a recap from 50,000 feet go to his blog. For others who want a more detailed discussion, post your questions here.…
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What I’m Reading Now…
The time to write reviews for all of these turned up missing somewhere in the jumble of wrapping paper, noisemakers, and new years resolutions. I tend to keep roughly five books going at any given time from my need to start something new every five seconds (I’m a better sower than tender), AND from valuing…
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Joseph Campbell Religion :: Did Joseph Campbell Believe in God?
Someone found their way to Literating asking this question: Did Joseph Campbell believe in God?
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Spinning Deathly Hallows Pendant?
Several of you searched for the Deathly Hallows Pendant and arrived at my thoughts on Deathly Hallows Part 1. Here’s what I wrote:
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David St. John – “Without Mercy…”
David St. John’s new poem Without Mercy, the Rains Continued sums up the silence imbibed via feeding tube from a husband who would not initiate conversation with his wife. “The Rains” in the title refers to the static on a recording.
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Boys Town by Jim Shepard
Boys Town focuses on a man in his late thirties, post-divorce, who is living with his mother. As usual with New Yorker shorts, I don’t recommend this one for a bed time story with the kids. I do recommend it for you, however, especially if you have any opinion concerning veterans (or if you are…
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The New Hero: Tolkien and Subversion
We have this innate hunger for heros. Every culture has them, and every hero has a sort of journey. Joseph Campbell made this concept famous with his “Hero with 1,000 Faces”. In fact, being freinds with George Lucas, he inspired Lucas to create Star Wars. Along this line of thought, meditating the various heroes of…
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Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul
Burckhardt’s Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul is the defining work on Esoteric Alchemy.
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Small Change: by Malcolm Gladwell
Small Change, by Gladwell, rebukes the current trend in social activism, boasting a subtitle: Why the Revolution Will not be Tweeted. In it, Gladwell recaptures the tone and tenor of the sit-ins started by four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina. Moving toward the alleged “Twitter Revolution in Iran”, he pulls the stopper out of…
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Happy 25th, Kiddo!
Happy 25th Birthday to my wife Tara Schaubert, the kindest, classiest, most enchanting woman to ever add color to a man’s world. May God grant you another twenty-five! love you!
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Ancient Prison Escapes
To the right sits a picture of Bacchus/Dionysius, from whose section in Bulfinch’s mythology I draw the following comparison. First the quote: Pentheus here exclaimed, “We have wasted time enough on this silly story. Take him away and have him executed without delay.” Acetes was led away by the attendants and shut up fast in…