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“Keep the politicians near enough to kick them.” -G.K. Chesterton
Category: Letters
Quote of the Day
“I turn the wheel that spins. I delight to see the high come down and the low ascend. Mount up, if thou wilt, but only on condition that thou wilt not think it a hardship to come down when the rules of my game require it.” -Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Fun Facts about the Tolkein Family
You can knock Wikipedia all you like, but I discovered some truly interesting information about the descendants of J.R.R. Tolkein, just by doing a bit of research on the Mabinogion. To wit: Christopher Tolkein deserves all the credit in the world for the existence of The Silmarillion. It was he who edited his father’s chaotic… Read More Fun Facts about the Tolkein Family
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The human character has been ill-served by nature: we tend to consider matters carefully after the fact, not before. -Quintus Curtius Rufus
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I find myself aggrieved Yet insufficient to express the same; For it requires a great and thunderous speech -Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1
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Though royal purple soothes his pride, And snowy pearls his neck adorn, Nero in all his riot lives The mark of universal scorn. -Boethius
After the Party
In RakeMag, a fascinating life of the man behind a poem I discovered and have read voraciously, The Wild Party. If you were looking for a young man with a great literary life in front of him in 1928, you’d have been hard-pressed to find a better candidate than 29-year-old Joseph Moncure March. His narrative in… Read More After the Party
Shakespeare in Original Pronunciation
Or OP, as they call it. My first impression is that it sounds very Celtic, which is odd, as the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and their Norman overlords were none of them Celts. I must be wrong about that, then. My second is that the lines flow with a musicality that they do not with… Read More Shakespeare in Original Pronunciation
On the Fear of Hell
Bad Catholic for the win, as the kids don’t say anymore: Unless we have an assurance that the people we love will never suffer and die, to accept an invitation to love is to accept an invitation to fear. Love does not comfort, then, but “ups the ante” of human existence, making higher the highs… Read More On the Fear of Hell
You Can’t Defeat an Idea
A lovely old Chestnut by Kate Paulik on the great folly of PC: political correctness in every incarnation I’ve seen is nothing more than lipstick on the Newspeak pig. PC has never – and can’t engage the root cause it purports to be about. Banning “racist” words does not magically make a bigot less bigoted.… Read More You Can’t Defeat an Idea
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