Happy Ascensiontide everyone!
@HarrierMagnus joins me in this episode of IMBIF to discuss his serial story, Technocracy.
This sweeping story starts small, but the scope is gigantic. Charles is releasing the story in installments, so start now and you won’t be far behind!
Check it out!
https://t.co/bfGJdIqHtS
My family and I are flying today to visit family.
Please pray that everything goes well and that the flight leaves on time and lands safely.
Thank you! ✈️✈️
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” C. S. Lewis
This is unspeakably sad.
It's wrong -- crushingly, gravely, sorrowfully, and heinously wrong.
I'm convinced what makes a difference is to pray that Christ will be known to every person invovled.
Pia and Max are gonna do that. Let's do that.
Ben Sasse has always been honest, but facing a terminal diagnosis he has been unplugged. Last night, in exactly 13 seconds, he explained the real reason compulsory education ever started in America.
Catholics, consider this when making choices about education for your children.
Heard about a recently published article, lets say generally in the area of Thomism, filled with hallucinated quotations. Easy to identify for someone who knew the scholarly territory.
The journal editor, when offered clear documentation and some standard options for correcting the scholarly record, refused to address it.
I expect something will be published about this eventually, but it is bad enough that "scholars" are polluting the discourse with AI slop. Fabricated quotations in scholarship about the history of ideas are especially insidious. It's somewhat disturbing that the problem wasn't caught during peer review. But since the corrupt article was published, it is much more scandalous that an editor wouldn't take easy and reasonable steps to safeguard the integrity of a journal.
Rose: "Holy Father, can I tell you a joke?"
Pope Leo: "Is it short? Lots of people want to meet me. Yes yes, okay. What's your joke?"
Rose: "What do you give an Italian ghost for dinner?"
Pope Leo: "I don't know...what do you give an Italian ghost for dinner?"
Rose: "Spookghetti!"
Pope Leo: "Oooooohhhhhoooo..." *cue laughter*
Great list, and I will enthusiasticly endorse any list of great books that includes Ruocchio's Suneater series. Its the best new thing I've read this decade.
“Fairy tales are unreal but they are not untrue; they reflect essential developments and conditions of man’s existence.”
-The Uses of Fairy Tales by Max Lüthi
Ok here we go
First off, listen to my podcast: I Might Believe in Faeries
Book list:
Walter Miller Jr - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Michael Flynn - Eifleheim
Tim Powers - Declare
Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun
R. A. Lafferty- Fourth Mansions
Christopher Ruocchio - The Sun Eater
Brian C Moore - Beneath the Silent Heavens
Hope Mirrlees - Lud in the Mist
I consider all of these to be classics, but none are for children (maybe Lud).