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Flannery O’Connor on Freaks in the Christ-haunted South
From Flannery O’Connor’s 1960 lecture, “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction“– Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is...
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“The Point of Robocop, of Course, It Is a Christ Story”— Paul Verhoeven’s...
Director Paul Verhoeven explains why his film RoboCop is a Christ allegory, and suggests what the American Jesus might be like— The point of RoboCop, of course, it is a Christ story. It is about a...
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“My Tone Is Not Meant to Be Obnoxious. I Am in a State of Shock”— Flannery...
From a 1961 letter by Flannery O’Connor to an English professor, who wrote her asking for an interpretation of her story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” In his letter, the professor concludes that the...
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“The Priest Is Us”: The Power and The Glory, Graham Greene’s Adventure of...
The Gospels are powerful not simply because Christ performed miracles and taught kindness, strength, and humility. Humanity has long attributed to certain individuals impossible deeds, tremendous...
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The Resurrection — Andrea Mantegna
Tagged: Art, Christ, Easter, painting Andrea Mantegna, renaissance, The Resurrection
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The Abdication (Book/Ero(t)icomic Epic Aquired, Sometime Last Week)
Rainer J. Hanshe’s The Abdication. Started this one the yesterday. Very weird, very cool. More thoughts to come, but here’s the blurb: Spring 2032: an enigmatic bandleader named Triboulet arrives by...
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The Gospel According to St. Matthew — Pier Paolo Pasolini (Full Film)
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“When you shoot an elephant, it stays on its feet for ten days before it...
Iquitos, 29 June 1979 When you shoot an elephant, it stays on its feet for ten days before it falls over. When I got back on the ice after two minutes in the penalty box, a puck struck hard from a...
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“Easter Eve”— Anton Chekhov
I was standing on the bank of the River Goltva, waiting for the ferry-boat from the other side. At ordinary times the Goltva is a humble stream of moderate size, silent and pensive, gently glimmering...
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“the familiar story of virgin birth on December twenty-fifth, mutilation and...
His father seemed less than ever interested in what passed around him, once assured Wyatt’s illness was done. Except for the Sunday sermon, public activities in the town concerned him less than ever....
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The Gospel According to St. Matthew — Pier Paolo Pasolini (Full Film)
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“Easter Eve”— Anton Chekhov
“Easter Eve” by Anton Chekhov I was standing on the bank of the River Goltva, waiting for the ferry-boat from the other side. At ordinary times the Goltva is a humble stream of moderate size, silent...
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His father seemed less than ever interested in what passed around him, once assured Wyatt’s illness was done. Except for the Sunday sermon, public activities in the town concerned him less than ever....
View Article“Easter Eve”— Anton Chekhov
“Easter Eve” by Anton Chekhov I was standing on the bank of the River Goltva, waiting for the ferry-boat from the other side. At ordinary times the Goltva is a humble stream of moderate size, silent...
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The familiar story of virgin birth on December twenty-fifth, mutilation and...
His father seemed less than ever interested in what passed around him, once assured Wyatt’s illness was done. Except for the Sunday sermon, public activities in the town concerned him less than ever....
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