Coincidentally: A More Delightful Vision
Would anyone like a sure-fire formula for a Broadway hit? I think this fits the bill: a one-act play in…
Coincidentally: When the Curtain Falls
Sages have observed that while the public scene is afflicted with countless personalities who are false tinsel, only in Hollywood…
Chesterton’s The Man Who was Thursday: Nightmare or Dream Come True?
Although the delight of civilized readers everywhere, detective fiction is built upon an uncivilized pessimism that expects to find evil lurking…
Life Echoes in Eternity: On J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle”
Urging his troops to manly fortitude in the face of Germanic barbarians, General Maximus of the 2000 film, Gladiator does not downplay the…
Telling the Truth
“A lying mouth destroys the soul” (Wis. 1:11). Lying has become a governing etiquette in an age that has abandoned…
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Lent: A Matter of Life in Death
All are guilty. Unbridled assertion of self. Satanic pride. Pure and simple devilment. All are Judas. All are Caiaphas. All…
Protected: Center Survey
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Is Silas Marner One of the Good Books?
Although the George Eliot novel is missing from some iterations of John Senior’s list of 1,000 Good Books, Silas Marner appears in the list as…
Coincidentally: Taking Flight
In a recent motion picture, computer technology shows the monster Godzilla toppling the Chrysler Building onto my bedroom. Special effects…
Coincidentally: The Madness of Many
Your scrivener writes these words with caution, for he is well aware of the power of coincidences to drive men…
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“One more step, Mr. Hands,” said I, “and I’ll blow your brains out! Dead men don’t bite, you know,” I…
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: The Savage Noble
Nothing conjures up summer quite like a bully, sure-’nough treasure: A kite, a dead rat and a string to swing…
Poe’s The Black Cat: The Perverseness Which Passeth Understanding
Even as nature falls asleep under the fiery spell of autumn, there awakens in the lords of nature a keen spiritual…
Chesterton and the Romance of the Humdrum
G.K. Chesterton was known for his flamboyant personality, his avant-garde artistic taste, and his shocking conversion to Catholicism. Yet the…
Coincidentally: Such Great Names As These
A commercial bank near me has been redecorated to celebrate the change of its nane. Several indifferent but well-done oil…
Speaking Well of the Dead
On July 29, 1997, a representative philosophe of our abortion culture, retired Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, was lavishly eulogized in St….
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The womb and the tomb—one of the most striking mirror images that our lives have to offer. Babies are buried…
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy: A Story for All Souls
A man lies on his deathbed—screaming; screaming for three days without cessation. Even behind closed doors, the sound horrifies all…
