Month: May 2011
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questions and constancies
No one who lives stands still. One begins to ask questions as soon as one can speak. Indeed, my first utterance, if I am to believe Mother, was not a single word but a coherent question: “Where’s Daddy?” I must have wanted to know. The young, at least, always want answers . . . The…
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soaking, and why social media is bad for our brains
Socrates said, famously, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Sheldon Vanauken, less famously, wrote, “Examination of one’s life goes hand in hand with contemplation: first the seeing it as it is and then the thinking about it.” Solomon saw, and thought, and wrote, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all…
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Interview with Jeffrey Overstreet (CSFF Tour, Day 3)
“It’s too late . . . I’ve come this far, and I’m not giving up now. Beauty is leading us home.” “You may find nothing at all. Or else a tyrant who takes away your freedom.” “And I may find the freedom to choose what is best and go on choosing it. All the time.…
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The Ale Boy’s Feast: My Review (CSFF Tour Day 2)
He tightened his picker-staff grip, desire rotting into resentment. Most creatures of the ground had vanished from the Expanse, caught by the underground menace or fleeing its clutches. Krawg had pursued that rusty-hinge chirp, compelled by hunger and, even more, by a longing to see feathers lift a mystery into the air, to hear a…
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CSFF Tour: The Ale Boy’s Feast (Day 1)
In this, my first CSFF tour in quite some time, I am proud to feature Jeffrey Overstreet’s The Ale Boy’s Feast, easily my favourite novel of the year. In the next two days I’ll be posting my review, and interview with the author, a book giveaway, and quotes from The Auralia Thread itself. Today, the…