Tag: religion
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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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Robbing Women and Robing Brides
I was miserably sick this past week, for those of you who noticed the blog silence. Antibiotics are being consumed, the appetite is yet to revive, but migraines and blistered eyes no longer conspire to keep the laptop and I at odds. I even read a book last night and it wasn’t shady bed reading.…
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The Step Between.
“When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?” The life and times of the person Cromwell. Umberto Eco tells us there is a fate that links the historical novel to medieval topics. He explains that this is because many of our contemporary conflicts can be traced to the tumultuous, and ongoing, break…
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Lost Ended (praise the lord).
Short Version: Jack Shephard had daddy issues. The boy in black had mommy issues. Go figure. Longer Version The great thing about Lost was its ensemble. Even conceding the mythology was complex for a television show- if you’ve spent your life steeped in spec-fic, well, *shrug*. The science was wonky, the fantasy clunky. The only…