Finished the first book. French knight Geoffrei de Charny's advice on mastering fear stood out to me: "Think about what you're going to do to the enemy, not what he's going to do you."
It’s strange. On account of the transience of memory, the events of our physical lives often have less permanence — one might even say significance — than the media we have consumed. Accepting this, we can say that history and theology are the media of either end of eternity.
'All poetic language is the languge of exploration. Since the beginning of bad writing, writers have used images as ornaments. The point of Imagisme is that it does not use images as ornaments. The image is itself the speech. The image is the word beyond formulated language.
The intellectual leap a young American understanding Georgy Lukacs’s concept of Reification is equivalent to the leap between an atheist and a Christian.