God is great, Eve is beautiful but unintelligent, Adam is a paragon of integrity, Satan is the epitome of evil. Whether or not any of these things are true in Paradise Lost, they are ideas presented by characters in the works to be taken as true or as believed by those characters. So the fundamental conflict is a conflict of perception. Eve might ( Read more... )

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I'm very sorry to see Terry Pratchett has died to-day although, aside from Good Omens, his collaboration with Neil Gaiman, I've only read one of his books (Hogfather) and have listened to one audio play based on another of his books (Night Watch). But from my minimal exposure to his vast output--forty-one novels in his Discworld series alone--I ( Read more... )

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Just got home from having lunch at the mall where the food court televisions featured CNN talking heads taking turns tearing chunks of meat off the corpse of Brian Williams' reputation. The glee was palpable, even with the sound so low it was practically off. I haven't really been following this story very closely but it seems like I remember ( Read more... )

Three books into the old King Jim now, I just finished Leviticus last night, the one infamous for two passages where God condemns homosexuality ( Read more... )

The first episode of the newest Monogatari arc looks promising. The conman who I didn't think was very interesting in Nisemonogatari has a cool running interior monologue in this first episode. I liked his opening lines, "People have an inherent desire to know the truth. That, or they want to believe that what they know is the truth ( Read more... )

I've just gotten back from city hall where I was part of a group interview for In-N-Out Burger. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the chain, it was the place Walter, Donnie, and the Dude went to eat after confronting the kid who'd stolen the Dude's car in The Big Lebowski. The place is somewhat legendary and for good reason--it's easily the ( Read more... )

Well, it's over, for me anyway, Comic-Con 2012. I am exhausted and I only managed to get into one panel I wanted to see, the Doctor Who panel to-day. I had to get up at 5:30 to do so and I only just barely got in. I got up at 6:30 on Saturday for the Hobbit panel and was stopped just shy of going in. But I have plenty to share as well as an ( Read more... )