There was no question of getting through to the kernel and throwing away the shell: no question of a gilded pill. The pill was gold all through. The quality which […]
At some point, most of us will go through a crisis of belief and wonder if there is a God. If God exists, why doesn’t He prevent evil? Christians recite […]
For if history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good: or if it records evil of wicked men, the devout, religious […]
How can it not know what it is? — Rick Deckard, Blade Runner That can be a question or a declaration put forth by Deckard, a Blade Runner hired […]
Having abused and misconstrued the word “gender,” we moderns have succeeded in obscuring its meaning entirely. Gender can apply to a quality that we are born with, or more recently, […]
There was once a little man called Niggle, who had a long journey to make. “Leaf by Niggle,” J.R.R. Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien is a master storyteller, especially when writing tales […]
It is mainly concerned with Death, and Immortality. J.R.R. Tolkien, commenting on The Lord of the Rings in a letter, October 14, 1958. Here are beauties which pierce like swords […]
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” George Orwell, 1984 Why is the dystopian theme in literature consistently popular? Let’s be honest […]
Welcome to our Brave New World where we live in a society of anger, autonomy, and division: beauty wrung out and replaced by a meme. More than ever, we are […]
