Tag: spirituality

• [thought piece] No Man’s Sky, Puddleglum, and Our Existential Need for Narrative

  

  Vox, believe it or not, made a pretty good point about No Man’s Sky in its article, No Man’s Sky is an existential crisis simulator disguised as a space exploration game: Okay, so the universe in No Man’s Sky is really, really big. But what, exactly, do you do in it? […] Even when the…

  dappled-things

  November 24, 2018

  culture, gaming, original fiction, thought piece

  alex tsakiris, comics, cosmos, darwin, dc, exisistentialism, joseph campbell, life, lord of the rings, marvel, materialism, meaning, mythology, narrative, no man’s sky, puddleglum, simpsons, spiritualism, spirituality, star wars, superhero films, the silver chair, the x-files, video gaming

• [posting] As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Close Reading

  Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry is stunningly difficult to parse, but when exploring the spaces of and between his words, one cannot help but come to a deep appreciation of the ideals that Hopkins imagined within his poetry. In “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”, Hopkins looks at a concept he considered deeply: ‘selving’. Using a combination of…

  dappled-things

  May 11, 2018

  literary critique, nonfiction

  as kingfishers catch fire, critique, gerard manley hopkins, inspirational, literature, poetry, spirituality

• “All that hooey! The trance and the white cocks and the brazier and the pentagrams and the voodoo and the reversed crucifix – all that was for the crudely superstitious. And the famous “box” was a bit of hooey for the contemporary-minded. We don’t believe in spirits and witches and spells nowadays, but we’re a gullible lot when it comes to “rays” and “waves” and psychological phenomena. That box, I bet, is nothing but a nice little assembly of electrical show-off, coloured bulbs and humming valves. Because we live in daily fear of radio fall out and strontium 90 and all the rest of it, we’re amenable to suggestion along the line of scientific talk. The whole set-up at the Pale Horse was bogus!”

  -Christie, The Pale Horse, 210-211.

  dappled-things

  May 9, 2018

  quote, Uncategorized

  agathe christie, spirituality