Write your own insect myth
Originally posted on Unlocking Words:
When I was researching insect mythology, I came across an interesting paper which used insect myths to “foster active learning” in undergraduate courses. It outlines a…
Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Originally posted on Biblioklept:
[Editorial note: The following citations come from one-star Amazon reviews of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. I’ve preserved the reviewers’ original punctuation and spelling. More one-star Amazon reviews]. Crapula hack…
Amazon Books — Daniel Rich
Originally posted on Biblioklept:
Amazon Books, 2013 by Daniel Rich (b. 1977)
“no longer did immediate this-worldly success have to be decisive”
From “God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love” by Gil Bailie: The Resurrection delivers men from the fear of death,” writes John Meyendorff, “and, therefore, also from the necessity…
Robert Sardello on the many types of Silence
from “Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness” by Robert Sardello: Everything, it seems, has its own quality of silence. It is a unified but many-qualitied phenomenon. The Silence of high, rocky…
More random quotes from WikiQuote
A while ago I posted 10 random quotes from WikiQuote. I don’t make any great claims for this, perhaps some juxtapositions thrown up by this method may be interesting, perhaps…
“The puzzle which God had flung to me consisted of elements which needed for their solution not the head only, but the heart, the imagination, the intuitions; in fact, the entire human character had to deal with it.”
From “Confessions of a Convert”, R H Benson This, then, I began to see more and more overwhelmingly: that it is possible, from the huge complications of history, philosophy,…
Simon Jacobson on “honouring thy father and thy mother”
The commandment to “honour thy father and thy mother” is one that, one would like to hope, is usually relatively straightforward. Many of us (most of us?) can fairly easily…
Séamus Sweeney 