2) Against Mr. Russell Kirk Below, I have begun to speak with you, Mr. Kirk, without having learned of you who you were. In this way, I hope to simulate a real conversation, where we do not often know a person with whom we shall never reconcile. This as opposed to those with whom I […]
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How to Write Fiction
5) Mechanics 3) Name I have broken a larger essay into portions. Name is a funny one. There is no doubt that God values a name most particularly and makes them very significant even for every average person, and I think even for fictional characters. We read in Genesis how He brought the animals to […]
End of Days: Introduction
This is the first chapter of a work in progress called End of Days, which is written for older children about ten years old. Wilfred Bonnywhack was the son of a lumberjack. He was fourteen years old and could swing an ax like his father. What he did was to find a good tree— out […]
On Understanding Women
2) The First Aspect 2) Sanguine and Melancholic This is a portion of a larger essay which I hope to print once I have squared away some theological points. It is for the purpose of instructing men, especially those pursuing the consecration of their purity. Scroll to the bottom for previous segments. The Sanguine Woman […]
On Understanding Women
2) The First Aspect 1) Choleric and Phlegmatic This is a portion of a larger essay which I hope to print once I have squared away some theological points. It is for the purpose of instructing men, especially those pursuing the consecration of their purity. Scroll to the bottom for previous segments. The First Aspect […]
On Understanding Women
1) Introduction Up until recently, I had deserted this tearful vale, by a dry and pleasant little cavern which I found in the mountains of Tennessee. Long has God kept me and my family here, feeding us by the ravens, but now they have interrupted their visits for a goodly few months, and I am […]
How to Write Fiction
5) Mechanics 2) Description I have broken a larger essay into segments to finish out this month. Description Description is a mechanic very much misunderstood and misused. Modern authors and aspiring authors complain of the long and tiresome employment of it by anybody writing before 1980 or 70. The older authors often employ it ineffectually […]
How to Write Fiction
5) Mechanics: 1) Dialogue I have broken a large essay into segments to finish out this month. Let us look today at six mechanics of composition. As before, I am going to do so in a sort of freeform style, since I am still in the process of developing this course. These six are: dialogue, […]
Against Conservatism
1) Against Freedom, Tradition, and Conservatism The book What is Conservatism? written in the ’60s, contains a number of essays expounding Conservative thought. I am planning on going through them systematically in order to rebut the entireity of Conservative thought. This is the first and introductory essay written by the compiling editor himself. Against Freedom, Tradition, and […]
Literal Interpretation of Genesis
The Old Testament I have heard that the Old Testament is highly underappreciated within the Church. No doubt, this is mostly because the people who read Genesis (the most beautiful of all books of the Bible excepting perhaps the Gospel of John, more straightforward than that or the Canticle, accessible to every man of every […]