john barret

@JackPosobiec You can argue pagan themes are evoked but not invoked. people often focus on the first part of the quote "LOTR is a fundamentally Catholic and religious work" but AND RELIGIOUS" deserves its due." see Denethor's end. or Beowulf. obliquity is not identity.

@JackPosobiec Same. As was Tolkien. With respect, you are so far afield in yr view of LOTR it makes me question yr analytical abilities. Read his letters referencing paganism, March 25th, Gandalf as angel, Our Lady informing Galadriel,Lembas, "northern courage"and more...

Still Catholic

@TheGreatB00ks obliquely A Canticle for Leibowitz

Whats the most underrated WW2 book?

@EduardHabsburg or Goldilocks. ugh

Are y'all looking forward to Sam's girl boss daughter ?

@Real_Ed_McCray I know he was involved in Space Mountain

@Real_Ed_McCray just if there are any available archive materials detailed interviews discussions images the usual thorough attention you give to Disney subjects I was just curious

I discovered this on youtube today. what a great CD! (I'll have to get a hard copy.) It features many vintage big band recordings of Walt Disney songs up to Peter Pan. (There's several not included but A LOT of now obscure songs that are here.) youtube.com/watch?v=Hy-ReT…

@jacqueboatman this letter and GK Chesterton's comments about film and Disraeli should be required reading in every film studies class. publish.iupress.indiana.edu/read/authors-o…

“The canons of narrative art in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration, and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 210

@AnthonyEsolen wow film Billy Budd better? a real lash in that post's tail!! can't concur but curious as to why? Robert Ryan and Terrence Stamp were good but I feel Peter Ustinov is overrated

Category: the Movie is Better than the Book: Ben-Hur To Kill a Mockingbird The Bridge on the River Kwai The Wizard of Oz The Member of the Wedding Billy Budd (!)

@luissantosquest @rocko57707472 @Not_the_Bee the Truth isn't neutral

Of course I understood, and already from the first answer he had already the ratings. I insisted because I wanted the names against those ratings. Also, the answer depends on my location? How is that neutral? So there is one different answer to each country? It could be because he knows I am conservative or because of the location, either way it should not lean on my direction.

I asked ChatGPT to give a thumbs up or down for all 100 senators. The results are ridiculous. All but 2 Dems got a thumbs up, all but 4 Republicans got a thumbs down (and those 4 Republicans with thumbs up are Murkowski, Collins, Romney and Britt...aka not real Republicans)

@luissantosquest @Not_the_Bee because it's closer to the truth

@Not_the_Bee I asked grok and this is what I got: Summary from this perspective • 👍: 53 (all Republicans) • 👎: 47 (all Democrats + 2 Independents caucusing with them) So how is that better?

@TheCinesthetic John Carter

What is the most unfairly hated movie that you will defend every time

@castlelong @TRHLofficial if u learn what you said is mistaken will you see your anti-catholic ideas are also mistaken and return to the fullness of truth with honesty and courage?

@TRHLofficial Reason #246 I am an ex-Catholic. You know that started because a 13th century Pope wanted to help the Italian fishing industry, right?

What are we having for meatless Friday dinner tonight, Catholics and others who observe lent? I’m making homemade mac and cheese, and butter & thyme broccoli.

@TRHLofficial tuna and assorted vegetables. foregoing the usual cheese pizza or fast food fish sandwich night lol

@RCCoulombe where might us faraways see/hear this lecture?

Tolkien giving Lord of the Rings to Our Lady. He is receiving inspiration from the Blessed Sacrament. His relationship to the two was the subject of my lecture to-night.

@christopherrufo what would your top five or ten novels list include then?

Right before Blood Meridian, I read Brothers Karamazov, and sure, the prose, at least in translation, isn't as riveting and the characters have the romantic emotional expression of their time, going into fits of hysteria and succumbing to "brain fever" and letting loose sheets of dialogue, but they are recognizably and fully human, with rich inner lives and the thread of Christian hope woven through the plot, and the story drives forward and the higher feelings stick with you at the end. Blood Meridian gives you babies impaled on a mesquite tree and the broken neck of a glass bottle shoved through a bartender's eye socket. Fine, I guess, but I want the Grand Inquisitor and Dmitry's injustice at trial and the Cluster B psychology of Grushenka and Aloysha's final words at the child's funeral. Plot, character, emotion, humanity, God.

I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.

@christopherrufo Suttree

@TheGreatB00ks Poe, O'Connor, Hawthorne, Joyce, GKC, Tolkien, Borges

Who are some of your favorite short stories authors? 1. Robert E. Howard 2. Edgar Allan Poe 3. Ernest Hemingway 4. Flannery O'Connor 5. Guy de Maupassant Who are some of your favorites?☕️📚

@walterkirn what say you about the minor masterpiece Suttree!!!!??

A goopy spaghetti western, preposterously mannered and overblown. That's my two cents.

@MattWalshBlog Suttree!!!!

Reading Blood Meridian. I wonder if there will ever be an author like Cormac McCarthy again, or if we’ve seen the last of the truly great writers. Every sentence he composes is art, like a painting. You see and feel what he’s trying to convey. He wrestles with big things, the human condition, good and evil. He doesn’t give you answers but he leaves you with a lot to think about. An absolute master of his craft. Not the last, I hope, but I don’t know.