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Respect Your Mother

Mother! – Beth is a fan of Darren Aronofsky’s films, and we finally saw this one at the Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, the part of Brooklyn that you can’t get to from other parts of Brooklyn. That’s an exaggeration, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Environmentalism, Mythology, Names, Norse, Relationships, Religion, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adam and eve, allegory, bible, cain and abel, darren aronofsky, ed harris, genesis, home invasion, javier bardem, jennifer lawrence, jesus, metaphor, michelle pfeiffer, mother earth, mother!, noah, ragnarok, revelation |

Nonsense That Makes Sense

This Tor article presented the idea of mapping fantasy lands along two axes, nonsense vs. logic and virtue vs. wickedness. Obviously there’s a lot of opinion involved here, but the first thing I thought was kind of weird was Neverland … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged absurdism, alice in wonderland, his dark materials, imagination, james barrie, kingdom of wisdom, logic, metaphor, neverland, nonsense, norton juster, peter pan, philip pullman, puns, spirituality, The Phantom Tollbooth |