The Silmarillion: Truth in the Secondary World of Middle Earth
“Probably every writer making a secondary world, every sub-creator, wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality . . . The […]
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“Inception of a Brigade”: The Truth of Scripture in Question
“They hold on to their beliefs, even though all other men oppose them. But I’m for religion that is tolerant of the times and not a threat to my safety. […]
And I Was Alive: Mandelstam and a Moment of Being
And I Was Alive by Osip Mandelstam (tr. Christian Wiman) And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear, Myself I stood in the storm of the bird-cherry […]