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How Then Shall we Write?*

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums *Apologies to Francis Shaeffer for the “paraphrase” of the title. Over the last forty-seven years of our pandemic house arrest, and this summer’s unpleasantness, I’ve been trying to narrow my focus a bit. [See: Busy with Too …

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: It’s Always Good to Go Back to Middle Earth

I still think The Lord of the Rings is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn’t wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written. English actor, Sir Christopher Lee, was born on this day in 1922 (died 2015). I can’t …

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