Memento Mori: Notre Dame
Ashes to ashes
First Friday Links – April 2019
The Open Culture site has a small feature on Franz Kafka's drawings. "In those diaries, Kafka doodled incessantly – stark, graphic drawings infused with the same angst as his writing. In fact, many of these drawings have ended up gracing the covers of Kafka’s books." The Risking Enchantment … [Read More...]
WS Merwin predicts his death
The poet W.S. Merwin died on March 15. It's a date he celebrated ninety-one times in his life. Each year as it passed, the anniversary made a mark on him. He felt his powers fading but the final moment lay hidden until the very end when he breathed his last. It was then, and only then, that he was … [Read More...]
Copyright and Moral Right
A recent article on The Guardian tells us that novelist Francis Spufford has penned an unauthorized sequel to C.S. Lewis's Narnia series that may never see the light of publication, which is sparking a small flurry of debate about copyright. "Frankly," one contributor opines, "copyright law [is] a … [Read More...]
LotR: An Imaginative Case for the Sacraments
Guest post by Lucas W. Holt Behind the Mind of Middle Earth: How The Lord of the Rings Presents an Imaginative Defense of the Catholic Faith (Conclusion) An Imaginative Case for the Holy Eucharist and the Anointing of the Sick The role of authority and the reflections of Mary in Galadriel are two … [Read More...]
LotR: An Imaginative Case for the Blessed Virgin Mary
Guest post by Lucas W. Holt Behind the Mind of Middle Earth: How The Lord of the Rings Presents an Imaginative Defense of the Catholic Faith (Part 2) Another specifically Catholic element of The Lord of the Rings is the typological characteristics of certain women, especially the Lady Galadriel, … [Read More...]
