"As the tree falleth, so shall it lie," he said. "Men have called that a gloomy text. It is the essence of exultation. I am doing now what I have done all my life, what is the only happiness, what is the only universality. I am clinging to something. Let it fall, and there let it lie. Fools, you go about and see the kingdoms of the earth, and ( Read more... )

"The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and ( Read more... )

"DON'T PANIC."

Go'bless you, Douglas Adams.

Discuss.

So, for a terribly brief period, I'm a citizen of the World, as the bugeaten hardeyed kids in Vietnam called it, rather than the halls of academia. 'Til fall comes around, at least. And even then it's night classes, all the way round, so I can keep working if I want to (need to ( Read more... )

When you walk in something true without understanding it, and come to be sick of the posturings of those who adhere to it before you come to understand it, you find yourself rebelling instinctively against it ( Read more... )

So Epilogue.net, which had a bunch of nifty (and appropriately serious) art which I appreciated, has apparently been down for quite a while, and does not appear to be coming back. Is anyone who was familiar with the site also familiar with art sites of comparable quality?

So here's a thought for you: postmodernism. The quintessential denial of objective perspective and verifiable fact. Most of you are probably familiar with the concept, I think ( Read more... )

May be it's just my fevered brain, but last night I was thinking about primitive cultures and how far we're supposedly ahead of them. For my "Western Traditions of World Religions" class with Dr. Corduan, our text posits a different schema -- that of Original Monotheism, where the "least developed" cultures, the ones theoretically closest to the ( Read more... )

On my walk across campus this evening, I thought about the quote Taylor riots unquote, and how generally good kids got surprisingly out of hand the moment the lights were out. It reminded me of something I read long ago -- the idea that humanity is only two missed meals away from a reversion to savagery. Which is an unsettling thought. If the ( Read more... )