The Metaphor
James Taylor ForemanReality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 128 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Why The New Right Still Can't Beat Hollywood
Trojan Horse from The Odyssey 2026
Behind an Orthodox church in an exurb outside Cleveland, there was a conference about re-telling the cosmic epic. To a panel consisting of Jonathan Pageau, Mary Harrington, Father Josiah, and Deacon Serap...
Microplastics Are Bullshit
Self Portrait with Unintentionally Ingested Micro Plastics - John Dahlsen, 2019
Thousands of years in the future, long after your body is dissolved, billions of microscopic particles in place of you will remain buried six feet down in a va...
What Happens When You Stop Reading
Reading is hard.
Certain corners of the internet prostrate themselves as we find ourselves in the soon-to-be-post-literate West. Much has been written about who isn’t reading anymore and how little. That, for example, at least 28% of the p...
A Very Simple Introduction to Re-enchantment
Viola Savoy in 1915, filming the Alice in Wonderland silent film.
Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, was also a logician and mathematician. His Symbolic Logic book is full of bizarre puzzles with absurd assumptions that are...
Nostalgia Is Good
An earlier draft of this (can’t stop editing, sorry) was published in Sword & Spade magazine where they also recently interviewed me in a podcast.
I was playing racquetball when my priest collapsed, saying, “My Achilles just went.”...
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Cajun Catholic. Southern Gothic. Studied philosophy, worked in Silicon Valley, now I'm back in Louisiana. Reality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
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