Posted in Writing on March 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Back in the eighth grade my English teacher loved all us brats and did her best to teach grammar. She even saw the wisdom of forcing us wildcats to diagram sentences - a concept so useless and inane I thought at the time, that I could never imagined wanting to know or need. Forty-five years [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Writing on February 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Philip Pullman created a wonderful fantasy invention in The Golden Compass when he imagined humans having a dæmon as an external soul to share their lives. His Dark Materials I believe is the largest selling recent fantasy series after the Harry Potter books, so the idea must really appeal to many people. It’s a crying [...]
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