A dying friend decided to read, in his last months, Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” As I read it, I’m beginning to understand why.
Monthly Archives: March 2023
On Homer and Rethinking My Father
The famous scene of Hector and Andromache has given me a new perspective on my father’s fatalism.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged determinism, fatalism, Homer, Iliad, Kurt Vonnegut, Scott Bates Comments closed
Pullman and White Christian Nationalists
In “The Secret Commonwealth” Pullmans description of the Magisterium sounds a lot like White Christian Nationalism.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Christian nationalism, Philip Pullman, rightwing politics, Secret Commonwealth, white supremacy Comments closed
Lit that Features the N-Word: What to Do
Now to teach White literature that employs the n-word? Balance with Black literature.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Absalom Absalom!, Beloved, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, n-word, racism, Song of Solomon, To Kill a Mockingbird, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner Comments closed
On Lent, Dust, and His Dark Materials
In Practical Christianity, Jane Shaw uses Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” to discuss how to grapple with life and sin.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Coming of Age, His Dark Materials, Jane Shaw, Lent, Philip Pullman, Practical Christianity Comments closed
March Has Come in Like a Liobam
What do you have when March comes in as both a lion AND a lamb. Thanks to Margaret Atwood, we have liobams.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged gene splicing, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Seasons, Spring, Year of the Flood Comments closed
Faulkner on Racism: Sadly, Still Relevant
Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” understands White America’s race hatred in a deep way that is still revelant.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Absalom Absalom!, Diversity, gothic fiction, miscegenation, racism, William Faulkner Comments closed
