Reflections on an Easter Sunday

The Lord is risen indeed!

ALLELUIA!

(Can you feel the world turn upside down?)

"I wonder what you think of Joyce, Father?": Epiphany in "The Enduring Chill"

This is a paper I recently wrote for my American Literature class. It's a brief interpretive response of Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Enduring Chill." I was really excited to get to bring Joyce in--"The Dead" is one of the most beautiful short stories ever, and synthesizing what I'm learning with British lit feels like irrigating a desert. I'm not good with American Lit. Nevertheless, I really like O'Connor, and getting a picture of this interesting intellectual conversation was certainly valuable.

To Ambleside

I have finally made up my mind to post a free-verse narrative poem describing my experience walking the five or six miles over the fells from Grasmere to Ambleside. It's mostly poorly expressed stream of consciousness, but it was a good bit of fun to come up with as I was walking. Consider it an experiment. You may expect tedium and a lack of logical flow. Just don't expect anything of genius. Also, the spacing is entirely messed up because of the blog formatting. C'est la vie.

Journal 3: Lewis and Eliot on the Limits of Words

I must confess from the outset that I take a profoundly mischievous delight in writing this journal, for I intend to bring a strain of ideas in the work of C.S. Lewis into conversation with T.S. Eliot’s poem, “Little Gidding,” in the full knowledge that Lewis would likely have been quite disgruntled by the similarities of thought I will find there.

Journal 2: Modernism and The Abolition of Man

My second effort to engage with the texts for class. I enjoyed it a great deal.
In this journal entry, I want to examine in what way the philosophy which Lewis criticizes in The Abolition of Man relates to the modernist struggle to recreate metanarratives for their lives, how it mirrors the reigning philosophy in our society, and how likely the consequences which he predicts will arise from this view of the world are to occur.