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 […]
Book Talks with A Professional Book Nerd
“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 […]
“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 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 […]