I discovered the other day that the past Sunday, 25 March, had been declared “International Tolkien Reading Day”. I don’t know who declared the day, but it seemed a significant event in some sense, and I marked it in my own small way. In the course of the day I happened to be talking to [...]
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The Catalogue of Dwarfs
Posted in Literature, Pretentious Claptrap, Useless Facts, tagged Dvergatal, dwarfs, J.R.R. Tolkien, Poetic Edda, Voluspa on 2012-03-27 | Leave a Comment »
8 September
Posted in Pretentious Claptrap, tagged Alfred Jarry, birthdays, Virgin Mary on 2009-09-08 | 3 Comments »
Happy birthday to Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873-1 November 1907), creator of Père Ubu and ‘Pataphysique, and to the Blessed Virgin Mary (birth traditionally celebrated by Roman Catholics on 8 September).
The Great Conversation
Posted in Pretentious Claptrap, tagged creativity, culture, education, Great Conversation on 2009-06-20 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I made the mistake of picking up the first volume of the set of Great Books of the Western World that is sitting in our dining room. This is a slim volume, considering that it serves as an introduction to 51 bulky, erudite tomes, representative works of classic thinkers of the [...]
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