Animal stories are the stuff of an imaginative child’s delight: Kenneth
Grahame’s Ratty and Mole, C.S. Lewis’s beaver family, Beatrix Potter’s Benjamin
Bunny. In these stories, impossibility is
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” I
was on a
“He can make the proudest spirits stoop, and cry out with Julian the Apostate,
Vicisti, Galilcœe; or with Apollo’s priest in Chrysostom, O cœlum! O terra! unde
hostis hic?
-Robert Burton,Anatomy
This article should be illegal.
In That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis, a sociologist agrees to write newspaper
articles on a riot that has not yet happened, but which his bosses have
Judging from his verse* of disgust for unwanted phone calls and visitors, is it
safe to say that Charles Bukoswki would welcome email, text, tweeting, blogging
and other networks were he alive in
