Always Start With the Good News
The Monster and the Dragon
“The malevolence of Grendel is hot, like malice always is. The rage of the dragon is cold, like the gold it is acquiring or defending. The dragon hates, but it is nothing personal. Grendel hates, and everything about it is personal. With the dragon, killing is a means to an end. With Grendel, killing is the end itself. The dragon is a night-flying outsider. Grendel is a cannibal. So this society is surrounded—hot enmity within and cold enmity without”
The Content Cluster Muster (04.15.21)
Holsterzz: A friend of mine makes holsters, and they have a great deal running. You really ought to check it out here. Jars of Pickles: “There is no meaningful distinction between men and women.” pic.twitter.com/5Ydy0Zpeho— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 11, 2021 Sky Above You Optional: As always, and quite consistently, more here. So Aren’t …
Quite Attractive Thanes
“The morning after Grendel is killed, Hrothgar receives the good news and comes out to look at the grisly arm. He comes, a great warrior king, having spent the night in a warm bed with Wealtheow, and when he comes, he advances with a troop of maidens following him (922-926), a bevy of curvaceous thanes”
189: Let Me Think About It…No
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189: Let Me Think About It…No
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Allow Me to Ask What Many Think But Are Not Allowed to Ask
Introduction: At times it may appear to us that America is like that fat kid in boot camp, and God is acting the part of a drill instructor who won’t lay off, with an apparent insatiable desire to get that kid to throw up two more times today. To change the metaphor (you’re welcome), it …
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Beowulf’s Inner Child
“But to represent this epic poem as a portrayal of the internal subjective struggles of a narcissistic modern is as anachronistic and foolish as to start looking for Beowulf’s inner child. The poet is addressing a problem which this people as a people knew they had. A poem like this should not be used as a blank screen on which we project problems that we know we have. Maybe Hrothgar was actually worried about global warming or high cholesterol”
Day Before Wednesday Letters
Letter to the Editor: Recommend for Man Rampant guest invitation: Pr. James Coates from Grace Life Church, Edmonton. Thanks for all you are doing in our Lord and Saviour’s name. Ian ...
Putting on Our Coates Coats
Introduction: The only real science involved in all the corona-panic anymore is the science of crowd control. And however poorly our governments may have done with regard to the virus itself, having run out of rest homes to put the contagious in, they have done a marvelous job when it comes to manipulating and all-round …
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