Posts Tagged ‘Mark Twain’
January 15th, 2018 | 
Author: The 2006 movie Stranger than Fiction is proof positive that the fantastic is able to explore the depths of reality, a subject that realism never seems to be able to grasp. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Movies, Religion and Culture | 
Tags: comedy, Dante's Divine Comedy, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, G. K. Chesterton, God, gospel, Jesus Christ, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mark Twain, metanarrative, modern age, reason, Revelation, Stranger than Fiction, The Club of Queer Trades, Tragedy, Will Ferrell | 
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Friday my good friend Rodrigo Chavarría died. A pleasant day out with my wife was suddenly changed as I checked our telephone messages. Rodrigo was dead a friend’s recorded voice told us. My wife wept, indeed howled, with grief. I remained silent. Later I wept, but the feeling throughout the day, and still this morning, is one of weight and numbness. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Religion and Culture, Spirituality |
Tags: 1 Thessalonians, 2 Corinthians, 2 Samuel, body, Death, glory, grief, Jeremiah, John Donne, Mark Twain, Mary Jane Moffat, resurrection, soul, T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men, Witter Bynner |
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