Posts tagged ‘Tolkien’

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• Gaps in Scholarship on C.S. Lewis and other Wade Authors 15 August 2017
  A few weeks ago I read a commentary on C.S. Lewis’s children’s novel Prince Caspian, which I found very helpful. You can see my review here. Now the librarian of the Marion Wade Center in Wheation, Illinois, USA, which has a large collection of material on C.S. Lewis and related authors, is appealing for people […]
• Own Affairs redux 14 August 2017
  There are lots of Internet discussions about racism going on at the moment, and one that particularly concerns me was on the “Ask an Orthodox Hipster” group on Facebook. Facebook groups are good for quick questions and simplistic answers, like soundbites, but they are not good for more nuanced discussions, so I’m writing about it […]
• Farewell to an old friend 8 August 2017
  Just over a month ago we visited old friends Martin and Wendy Goulding. A month later Martin died. Martin told us something about his health problems. He was taking pain-killers every day, and had to have medicine for diabetes more than 20 times a day. He was regularly seeing an oncologist about cancer. And today […]
• Spies Tell Lies. | The Shrieking Man 5 August 2017
  With the reopening of the Ahmed Timol inquest, and seeing it live on TV, this post from last year may have renewed interest In South Africa, of course, the police spy was necessarily tied in with the apartheid state, and to be called an “impimpi” was as much as one’s life was worth (provided that […]
• Literary coffee klatch: witchcraft, demons, and war 4 August 2017
  Yesterday we gathered at Cafe 41 in Arcadia for our monthly literary coffee klatsch. Tony McGregor had a book, The mystery of the solar wind, by Lyz Russo, which is currently free on Smashwords. Tony said it was about pirates in the 22nd century, which reminded me that I had just finished re-reading Swallows and […]