By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … When I was a child I read without discipline: / Robert A. Heinlein, Robin Hood, cowboy yarns / Pirates raiding across the Spanish Main / Penrod and Sam, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn…
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Join us as we explore the True, the Good, and the Beautiful: Visual Art! This issue includes a big announcement as well as thoughts on fine art, Beauty and the Beast, animated movies, and more! As ever, there is Bible Trivia, Controversy Corner and plenty more!
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Join us as we explore the True, the Good, and the Beautiful: Storytelling! This issue includes lots of thoughts on storytelling and books, a short biography of C.S. Lewis, and a brand new short story! As ever, there is still Bible Trivia, Controversy Corner and plenty more!
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … We can’t take our books with us when we die / That reality shouldn’t bother me, but it does: / The copy of The Brothers Karamazov / I carried in Viet-Nam – off to a re-sale shop?
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The Thought became Incarnate in Judaea / And thoughts become incarnate in the books we read / For thoughts are tabernacles of our hopes / Tents in the deserts of our wanderings
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…tyrants don’t want people thinking for themselves. Books are dangerous to bullies, whether they are Hitler, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Vlad the Bad Putin, Chairman Xi, or the Ms. Grundy down the street.
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At least I think I read it, did I not? / The book exists and was read, but by whom? / I’m beginning to feel that I’m the trousered ape / Who feels that a slide rule is for scratching one’s back
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Whether they be in books, movies, or TV shows, there is certainly no shortage of children’s stories out there. This cannot come as a great shock to anyone, given the inquisitive minds of children. Children have a peculiar fascination with that which is unfamiliar to them. It is common for a child to stare in awe at things which seem rather ordinary to the grown-ups around them. It is this same sense of wonder that draws children to stories. These stories allow them to imagine people, places, and things they have never seen before, which is so exciting for them.
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Books have many authors, and the Author of All Blesses them and us with their waves of words
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All literature is world literature / A culture that hugs itself to itself / And refuses to share and share alike / Consumes itself in a closed loop, and dies
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We all dream of our own library someday
Shelf after shelf of finely bound editions
An oak-paneled room with a stone fireplace
And French windows that open to the sea
Mr. Frost crafts smooth, flowing iambic tetrameter and iambic pentameter, sometimes rhyming but sometimes not. That he makes rhyme work so well demonstrates the excellence of his art; there are only five – arguably six – vowel sounds in English, which rhymed through the pen or keyboard of a learner usually ends in clunkiness or unintended comedy.
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Books are secret places where words go to hide
When the world goes wrong, and children are hurt
By grownups who never learned how to read or love
Or even tell funny stories around the campfire…
Book shops offer us civilizations
Democracies of the living and the dead –
Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, and you
Over cups of coffee wrangling meter and rhyme…
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