Tag: books
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Mirrors & Myths.
This is the creature there has never been. They never knew it, and yet, nonetheless, they loved the way it moved, its limber neck, its very gaze, mild and serene. Not there, because they loved it, it behaved as though it were. They always left some space. And in that clear unpeopled space they saved […]
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Field of Magnetic Impulses.
I would like to be Mercutio. Among his virtues, I admire above all his lightness, in a world full of brutality, his dreaming imagination- as the poet of Queen Mab- and at the same time his wisdom, as the voice of reason amid the fanatical hatreds of Capulets and Montagues. He sticks to the old […]
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The Cult of the Big Book.
The unfolding of the Logos introduced directionality into history Such as do build their faith upon The Holy Text of pike and gun Decide all controversy by Infallible Artillery And prove their doctrine orthodox By Apostolic blows and knocks call Fire and Sword and Desolation A godly-thorough-Reformation. Samuel Butler. This monster-post, inspired by the book […]
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Divine Malarkey
The Hindu sense of time is intense; the importance of time as an agency for change, the sense that things that happen come to fruition at a particular moment- now- pervades the great history called the Mahabharata Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternate History SouthAsia emerges from prehistory in the grip of two equally frustrating […]
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The Uncoupling of Jesus Christ.
Hope is a long leash drawn in slowly. Wendy Cope, After Prague I came to The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ well disposed to Philip Pullman, and I left with my illusions intact. Pullman tackles the central conundrum of the Christianity: how did the oh-so-radical Jesus leave the oh-so-conservative church as his sole legacy? Pullman’s […]