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Monthly Archives: December 2013
“That he our deadly forfeit should release . . .”
This week in the Great Books Project we come within a whisker of our 5,000th page of Imaginative Literature and 3,500th page of Science and Mathematics. That seems like a pretty good way to ring in the new year! Here … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Liberal Arts
Tagged Cervantes, Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, John Milton, Plutarch
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5 Reasons Why a “Faithful Film Adaptation” of The Hobbit Would Stink
[This post contains spoilers. Consider yourself warned.] I love J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. I read it for the first time when I was six years old and have returned to it many times over the years. I still have a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture
Tagged Corey Olsen, Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, Tolkien
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Tilting at Windmills
To observe Christmas this week in the Great Books Project, I’m sandwiching in something seasonally appropriate between the irreverence of Fielding and Cervantes. I think you’ll like it (unless, of course, you’re a philistine!). Here are the readings for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Max Weber, Thomas Aquinas
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A Muggle in the Thirty Years War
I can’t put it off any longer. Dust off that suit of armor in your closet, because it’s time to open Cervantes. Here are the readings for the coming week: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, Book XII (GBWW Vol. 37, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Charles Darwin, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Rene Descartes, Thomas Aquinas
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Oedipus Goes to Die
When was the last time I went exactly seven days between Great Books posts? I have no idea, to be honest. Nevertheless, we completed 16,500 pages last week and continue our journey through the Great Conversation. Here are the readings … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Sophocles, Thomas Aquinas
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“A House Where Old Friends Were Betrayed”
Welcome to December! It’s hard to believe we are nearing the end of our third full year of readings in the Great Books Project. As usual, I’ll do a summary of the year’s accomplishments in early January, but I think … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas, Willa Cather
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