When J. R. R. Tolkien published The Lord of the Rings, many readers assumed they were looking at a political allegory. The generation that had lived through the Great Wars could not help seeing the shadows of their own experience in Middle Earth. Armies rising in the East, old alliances strained, ancient evils returning after long…
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Slinging Wisdom – The Tyranny of Brevity
Every year for the past 20+ years, since I was first introduced to Dr King’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” I have endeavored to read one of his letters on “MLK-J Day.” This introduced me to one of my favorite works of literature, his 1967 Christmas Sermon where he noted, ironically, that “our world is…
Exocubic 