by Rudyard Kipling It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily
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"And out of the right acceptation of words there grows a sacred and a further explanation of their meaning: they illumine not only what we are but what we might be..."
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"Come," said the Sultan to his hasheesh-eater in the very furthest lands that know Bagdad, "dream to me now of London."
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The poignant, inspiring preface to Lord Dunsany's "Tales of Wonder."
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"The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past."
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In this short episode, I stress the major themes of “Tracking Song” My writeup may be found here: http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-…, and the Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast has a far more thorough breakdown here
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Charles Williams. He’s not an easy man to write about and there will be more about him later, but he and T.S. Eliot were best friends, he was also buddies with J.R.R.
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The letters of a people reflect its noblest as architecture reflects its most intimate mind and as its religion (if it has a separate or tribal religion) reflects its military capacity or
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Where the great plain of Tarphet runs up, as the sea in estuaries, among the Cyresian mountains, there stood long since the city of Merimna well-nigh among the shadows of the crags....
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Editor’s Note: Our friend, Adam Piggott, posted this review on his site. Since it is a review of our buddy’s book, we decided to cross post it here. This article in the Catholic
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(I’ll be devoting this post to a brief bio of Smith, and this book, but the short stories and novellas will be important next time. And then we’ll come back and examine
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