Tag: literature
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Christopher Nolan, Virtue, Interstellar, Fascism, and Batman
“Paranoia about corruption and trust in strongmen is one of the hallmarks of fascism.”
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How Christian Monks Saved Beowulf
“This point cannot be stressed enough: the pagans did not write things down.”
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Why The Great Old Ones Make You Lose Your Sanity
“This hateful, hungry god of a creature is between being a glimpse of a writhing horror, and a horror that watches unseen.”
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Gandalf and the One True Ring
“Tolkien–like most Christians–believed that the most important things about the world are not subject to quantification. ‘Magic’ and ‘power’ in his mythos are qualitative, not quantitative phenomena. … the Rings of Power act more as multipliers of their wielders’ inherent virtue/vice and force of personality than by conveying discrete, quantifiable powers. Each person who comes […]
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How to Write About Africa
“In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it is hot and steamy with very short people who eat primates. Don’t get bogged down with precise descriptions. Africa is big: fifty-four […]