Posts Tagged ‘ Literature ’

Fantasy and Reality

“As a younger person, I would have loved to enter a Tolkien-esque world (and could easily pass for a hobbit too!), and some of the imaginary worlds I was drawing as a teenager, but I don’t really have those kind of escapist longings any more. More and more I see fantasy worlds – as in [ READ MORE ]

Phillip Pullman is such a Gnostic

Forget atheist.  Seriously, this is a work about mysticism and Gnosticism. It's not anti-religious at all.  He might be against the idea of the Church, but the spirituality he evokes is much deeper. Here are some connections I've come across recently while looking deeper into Gnostic Christianity:(WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD) 1. The Alethiometer – While [ READ MORE ]

Book/Movie Announcement: The Fountain and His Dark Materials

Here we go folks! Movie:  The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky The Fountain (Widescreen Edition) Synopsis:Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Past, present, future. Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Hugh Jackman plays that man, devoted to one woman (Rachel Weisz) and determined to protect her from [ READ MORE ]

Pilgrim and Holy the Firm Summary

Here are the links to everything we discussed regarding Annie Dillard’s books! Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Straying Trail of Blood Random Quotes Laura’s Reaction Holy the Firm Quotes Dillard and Christianity Comparing the Days[ READ MORE ]

Book/Movie Announcement: Happy Death and Magnolia

Not too many people voted, but it's all good.  Not too many people participate either, but it doesn't matter.  I'd rather have quality than quantity, and boy do we have it. Here's the book for this round: Happy Death Albert Camus "As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house — and [ READ MORE ]

Voting Time!

I know it's been a while, but I like to wait until at least more than one of us have finished before we move on.  That said, it is now time to vote for the next book/movie!  As always, if you don't like the suggestions I put here (they're really more like idea starters) feel [ READ MORE ]

Holy The Firm – Comparing the Days

As promised, a look at the days when compared and contrasted.  Here’s a pretty little chart!  Sorry if the thoughts are in fragments.  I swear it makes sense when you read the book! Holy the Firm More comments on Day Two: Heartbreak, “caught holding one end of a love” Everything good looks fake Chart of [ READ MORE ]

Holy the Firm

Wow.  I'm absolutely blown away.  Holy the Firm Annie Dillard What a perfect reminder of everything that I hold dear!  Reading this again, I'm realizing just how much of my world view was shaped by reading this short story.  It's about 20 pages long, but for me, it goes on forever.  Seriously, even more than [ READ MORE ]

Progress

I still haven't watch Mulholland Drive, mainly because I haven't had any time to watch the current movie I have checked out from Netflix. But I have been reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.  Turns out I'd only read a couple of chapters in that class I took in college, so much of it is stuff [ READ MORE ]

Pilgrim

Man, I just started reading this book.  I'm absolutely blown away by it, and this isn't even the first time I'm reading it.  I'm thinking that I just might have to read Dillard every couple of years to remind myself to really live. I could write an essay on any paragraph.  I could quote you [ READ MORE ]

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