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The Dream of the Rood
anonymous (Anglo-Saxon) 7th-8th century (In a vision, the cross of Christ reflects with awe on its part in the death of God.) “The most beautiful of the medieval religious poems”. This is often said of The Dream of the Rood. The first time I read this assessment—I had never even heard of the poem—it was by […]
The Right Stuff
May 27, 2014 / Leave a comment
Tom Wolfe 1979 (Seven pilots scale the ziggurat of manliness on the quest to be America’s space heroes.) Tom Wolfe probably awoke one morning and thought to himself, wouldn’t it be great if reading about current events were as fun as reading novels? And with as simple an idea as that, he kicked off the movement […]
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