To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. (G.K. Chesterton, +1936)
Day: October 28, 2024
Exogenesis: A Review
Exogenesis, by Peco Gaskovksi Ignatius Press, 2023 ISBN/UPC: 9781621646341 One of the most difficult things in writing a ‘fantasy’ – any story which is not based on this present world – is constructing a realistic and believable ‘other world’. In his famous essay on Fairy Tales, J.R.R. Tolkien calls this a ‘sub-creation’, at which he was[…]
Bill Gates on the Hot Seat
There’s more than a little schadenfreude in seeing Bill Gates put through his paces by this doughty interviewer. The commentator is right when he says, ‘she’ll never be invited back’. Gates storms off in a huff when the seat gets too hot for his tender behind, ‘this interview’s over’. But she’s done her duty. We[…]