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Beowulf the Movie Having written the sequel, I had to go see the original. Well, the original as reimagined by […]

Somehow I’ve gotten drawn into the Episcopal blogosphere and have now written four essays for a web site called The

I suppose it had to happen. Now that sales of Beyond Beowulf are approaching 1000 copies, Hollywood has jumped on

Last night the Red Sox won the World Series and we had the first hard frost of the season. Perhaps

Every plant or animal, if unopposed, intends to take over the world. Possums produce a dozen or more young twice

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ” asked Percy Shelley. That’s a nice idea, and maybe has some

Somewhere in the Lord of the Rings cycle I seem to remember an episode with marching trees moving to attack.

George Orwell’s famous book, 1984, is the most familiar statement of the way in which words can be made to

Beowulf was a lunker. I was digging potatoes recently and the first one I came up with was something special.

To speak of Autumn as “Fall” is apparently a North American custom and having to do, they say, with the