A Flower
“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is…”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Author: Theodosius
Book Review: The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
“Whence comes the Innovator’s authority to pick and choose?”
– C. S. Lewis
Book Review: France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu by Victor-Lucien Tapié
“Beneath the rule of men entirely great / The pen is mightier than the sword.”
– Richelieu; Or, the Conspiracy II. 2.
Book Review: The Lusíads by Luís Vaz de Camões Translated by Landeg White
“There will be no lack of Christian daring / In this little house of Portugal.”
– The Lusíads VII. 14.
Book Review: Inquisition by Edward Peters
“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”
– Joseph De Maistre
Jacques de Molay
“The life offered me on such infamous terms I abandon without regret.”
– Jacques de Molay
The Fate of Phos Phokarion
“Grief everywhere, Everywhere terror, and all shapes of death.”
– Aeneid II. 490-491
Book Review of J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion by Richard L. Purtill
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Book Review: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20