George Harrell
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George Harrell
@geharrell
Humanities teacher with @KeplerEducation, Executive Director of @BuchananForum
Moscow, ID เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2015
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@geharrell Read The Solar Cycle (New Sun, Long Sun, Short Sun, etc), Wizard Knight to start
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The American Tolkien is Gene Wolfe
The American C. S. Lewis is Tim Powers
Brain Leakage@BrainLeakage03
My contention is that the “American Tolkien” isn’t someone like GRRM or Robert Jordan. They’re essentially telling European stories, dealing with matters of rightful kings and chosen ones. The American Tolkien is Burroughs, and his LOTR is the Mars series. A Confederate veteran travels to a savage world that resembles a fantastical version of the Arizona desert. He must learn the ways of the locals, master the wilderness, and carve out a prosperous life for himself through grit, bravery, and sheer exceptionalism. It doesn’t get more American than that.
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This conspiracy to get me to buy more books is working...
logospublishing.com/box/1-the-cons…
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It is not too late. Please check out the brief introduction to my live course on Homer's Odyssey. Read it before the movie comes out in early summer.
Registration link in reply.
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The Tower and the Ruin is one of the finalists for the 2026 Tolkien Society book award!!
tolkiensociety.org/2026/04/vote-n…
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Everyone needs more John Moriarty in their lives.
Marcas Ó Conghaile Muirthemne@More_Christ_
John Moriarty 🤝 @Sophiologist_ 🤝 @EoinLenihan “Every bush is a burning bush, burning with green fire, burning with red fire, burning with jewel-blue fire, burning with fire auroral but ordinary, burning with fire we haven't senses or faculties for.” John Moriarty - Dreamtime John is one Ireland's greatest storytellers, an almost mythic character whose time it seems has finally come. youtu.be/JnFgOhxj2nM?si…
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We need to recover a non-ironic sensibility of the epic, that to heed the heroic call of the gods is to accept an invitation to suffer.
Great thoughts here, @kalezelden and @PageauJonathan
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9zps7R…
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“The descriptions we do in theology after the fact of the encounter are different from constructing theology to get to the encounter.” - Fr. Aquaro
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John Moriarty 🤝 @Sophiologist_ 🤝 @EoinLenihan
“Every bush is a burning bush, burning with green fire, burning with red fire, burning with jewel-blue fire, burning with fire auroral but ordinary, burning with fire we haven't senses or faculties for.”
John Moriarty - Dreamtime
John is one Ireland's greatest storytellers, an almost mythic character whose time it seems has finally come.
youtu.be/JnFgOhxj2nM?si…
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"Alchemy posed as a sacred science, whereas chemistry came into its own when substances had shed their sacred attributes. Now there must, of necessity, be a break of continuity between the sacred and the profane plane of experience." - Mircea Eliade
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For an author, the bit in this episode of Boggart and Banshee where OUP write to Walter Evans Wentz declining to publish a second edition of 'The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries' because they only sold 34 copies is just too close to home 😭 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wal…
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I burnt through these books like tissue paper as a kid. I still remember looking up from my little reading light and realizing it was 2:00 AM.
ThinkingWest@thinkingwest
A highly underrated work of children’s literature:
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I love that.
It’s really rough watching something like Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel” and seeing how the New Atheist movement strips the sacred-social order away from the past and creates a world comprised only of charlatans, rubes, and victims. In contrast I genuinely enjoyed Egger’s more recent film, “The Northman,” because even though he also desaturated the filter, he actually allowed the world of the past to speak for itself (minus the one unfortunate fight scene with the draugr). So there’s hope that there’s still space to rediscovering this wonder in pop culture.
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@geharrell @chrbaxter_yt I love how it reaffirms that there is nothing new under the sun, exposes myths about the Middle Ages and introduces a new audience to the wonder, colour & vitality of this time in history. I like the mix of scholarly references and pop culture vignettes, as I think it will land.
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Has there been any talk in 'The Corner' about Medieval Mindset?
I have been watching lots of his videos recently and find he perspective:
1. Fascinating and often insightful.
2. Congruent with themes in @PaulVanderKlay, @PageauJonathan & @Sophiologist_.
youtube.com/watch?v=GZhH_J…
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I listened to a couple videos, and we’re trying to identify the best historical matches based off of comparative data to then use for explanatory and predictive purposes: “America isn’t in decline like the Ancient Roman Empire, it’s just muddling along for a thousand years like the Holy Roman Empire.” This all assumes we’re selecting the right circumstances, that we can weigh these circumstances equally, and that these factors are responsible for producing future outcomes.
Would love to hear if Christian has thoughts.
youtu.be/YNfKrjEWvj4
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@More_Christ_ @chrbaxter_yt Do the stories we tell about current events reflect inherent patterns or useful narratives we reach for because they’re how we want to see ourselves?
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@More_Christ_ @chrbaxter_yt I would love to hear more about what you particularly enjoyed.
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@More_Christ_ @chrbaxter_yt I don’t know if that’s a penny’s worth of thought, but this fellow sure has a lot of content and I had to keep it generic.
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Today's awesomeness: a podcast with @PLeithart and @jamesrwoodtheo on Christopher Dawson and a reimagined Christendom.
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