St. George and the Dragon: Inspiration and Identity
We can learn much about both a person and a country by the heroes they revere. One such illustration is the enduring legend of St. George and the dragon and […]
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant: The Dragon of False Memory
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2016 novel The Buried Giant is a departure from his usual modern or dystopian settings and looks back in time to post-Arthurian Britain. It is classified as a […]
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Excerpt from The Chaos Spiral
This is an excerpt from Adam Brackin’s new Arthur Evans novel, THE CHAOS SPIRAL, coming soon from Wooton Major Publishing. Helicopter or not, Arthur was using his lecturing voice […]
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Lewis’s Dragons and Materialism: A Reflection on Eustace Scrubb and Other Dragons
Dragons are known for many things, but their greed and disregard for human life make them iconic. If I were permitted to use dragon-like qualities as an adjective, I may […]
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Job and His Dragon
The Book of Job is one of those works that we tend to skirt around. It is as dark and murky as a dragon’s cave. Job is a good man […]
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The Cardinal
In most western cultures, people imagine dragons to be evil, demon-like make-believe beasts, living in dark, dangerous places. They think of large, muscular, flying, fire-breathing creatures with colorful, glittering scales […]
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Dragons, Snakes, and Demons: A Medieval and Biblical Bestiary for Modern Minds
DEFINING DRAGONS: THE MODERN MIND VS. THE MEDIEVAL MIND If you were to look up a dictionary definition of the word dragon, you might find something along the lines of, […]
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Violence of Fire
The night was dark and still: starless, moonless, windless. If not for the groans of the shifting planks and the light smack of oars against sea, there would be no […]
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The Dragon’s Demise: Experiencing Apocalypse
My childhood did not include encountering dragons much that I can recall. I knew there were fanciful stories about them in the world, but those stories were never collected on […]
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Dragonish Thoughts in Our Hearts: Dragons as Mirrors of the Human
“Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; / If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!”[1] There is something stirring […]
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