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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Editor’s Note: Head over to The Last Redoubt and get caught up on all the great content there. It’s been quiet over the holidays, yet not. If anything, one of the problems
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Editor’s Note: Ian is offering up The Bilge Pump of a Turgid Mind, his first book of poetry, for free on Amazon. This offer is good until December 29, 2020. You can
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Editor’s Note: Ian posted this at his own site. You can leave comments for him here or there. My dear ol’ dad posted a Facebook post about the dearth of Latin Christmas
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Editor’s Note: This is first in a series of reviews of Tim Powers’ writing. We will run the others soon, as well. Men of the West are readers. The Last Redoubt does
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Editor’s Note: Our good friend, Moira Greyland shared some thoughts with us and suggested that we pass them along to our readers. We agreed, and offer up her ideas. Take them and
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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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