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Robert Keim
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Rediscovering the world, one another, and oneself through literature

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The (Medieval?) Origin of Fairy Tales

some trees scream, others protect doves from dragons

Who wrote Cinderella? No one knows. It’s one of the most recognizable and beloved stories in all of Western culture, and it has no author. But does that mean it has no origin? On the one...

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Are Fairy Tales Zany?

the implied question being, Should we read them?

Last week I warned against the zany, an aesthetic of distorted forms, lurid colors, frenetic activity, and crass unreality that is aggressively marketed to, and especially harmful for, child...

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Don’t Let the Zany Choke Out the Poetry

continuing our discussion of postmodern aesthetics

There is a cause-effect relation between the work we do, the clothes we wear or do not wear, the houses we live in, the walls or lack of walls, the landscape, the semiconscious sights, sou...

15 days ago
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A Practical Guide to Improving One’s Speech

In the course of our recent discussion of the interesting, I said the following:

Some people with whom I interact seem little inclined to actively pursue the improvement of their speech, by which I mean diversifying vocabulary, weeding o...

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The Ancient Roots of the Modern Interesting

more reasons to flee from the social media doom cycle

“All human beings by nature desire to know”: thus does Aristotle begin his Metaphysics. It’s a famous statement about mankind’s innate urge to acquire knowledge, and it could be used to...

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    PhD in literature | medievalist | linguist and translator of poetry | secular brother of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London

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