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	<title>De Rerum Mysterio</title>
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		<title>Novel vs. Epic</title>
		<link>http://demysterio.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/novel-vs-epic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking recently about the difference between the novel and the epic, particularly since I have been doing much with the ancient Greeks and Virgil.
If you are inclined to participate in this discussion, what do you think are the differences between C. S. Lewis&#8217; After Ten Years (not a full novel, but an excerpt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demysterio.wordpress.com&blog=93742&post=202&subd=demysterio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving the Veil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neoclassical</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard M. Weaver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barbarism and Philistinism cannot see that knowledge of material reality is a knowledge of death. The desire to get even closer to the source of physical sensation—this is the  downward pull which puts an end to ideational life. No education is worthy of the name which fails to make the point that the world is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demysterio.wordpress.com&blog=93742&post=156&subd=demysterio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Need for the Bad News</title>
		<link>http://demysterio.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/the-need-for-the-bad-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neoclassical</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of man’s passage from religious or philosophical transcendentalism has been told many times, and, since it has usually been told as a story of progress, it is extremely difficult today to get people in any number to see contrary implications. Yet to establish the fact of decadence is the most pressing duty of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demysterio.wordpress.com&blog=93742&post=158&subd=demysterio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eliot&#8217;s Revolution in Literature</title>
		<link>http://demysterio.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/eliots-revolution-in-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neoclassical</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T. S. Eliot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What Eliot’s revolution in literature gave to this age was a renewal of the moral imagination—with social consequences, potentially. Eliot’s orthodoxy, expressed in new forms, offered something more attractive to mind and heart than could either liberalist aridity or the ominous People’s Hall of Culture. Literature and society both depended in a transcendent order, Eliot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demysterio.wordpress.com&blog=93742&post=106&subd=demysterio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Out Loud about The Oresteia, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://demysterio.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/thinking-out-loud-about-the-oresteia-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neoclassical</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aeschylus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aeschylus seems to have a keen awareness that an admixture of good and evil exists in the action of exercising power, and that a person should be aware of this, especially in times of triumph. Agamemnon in his triumphal return home should not forget all the sorrow and calamity that came about in his winning: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demysterio.wordpress.com&blog=93742&post=144&subd=demysterio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newman on the Imagination</title>
		<link>http://demysterio.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/newman-on-the-imagination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neoclassical</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Henry Newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do you think about this?
Strictly speaking, it  is not imagination that causes action; but hope and fear, likes and dislikes,  appetite, passion, affection, the stirrings of selfishness and self-love. What  imagination does for us is to find a means of stimulating those motive powers;  and it does so by providing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demysterio.wordpress.com&blog=93742&post=152&subd=demysterio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Out Loud about The Oresteia, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://demysterio.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/thinking-out-loud-about-the-oresteia-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neoclassical</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aeschylus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oresteia has several parallels with The Odyssey. On one hand are the obvious correspondences between Odysseus and Agamemnon traveling home after the war. They both struggle to get home, suffer much loss along the way, find disarray that needs to be addressed in their homes and kingdoms, and have loyal loved ones waiting for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demysterio.wordpress.com&blog=93742&post=142&subd=demysterio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Out Loud about The Odyssey, Part 6</title>
		<link>http://demysterio.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/thinking-out-loud-about-the-odyssey-part-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neoclassical</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Odyssey, Books XVII-XXIV, cont.
The gods seem to have evolved in Homer’s works, but his books do not give us hints about further development of the gods. They have particular and local affiliations, but they seem to move towards diminishing these. Thus, Zeus allows Sarpedon to die, but Poseidon is vengeful when Cyclops is wounded. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demysterio.wordpress.com&blog=93742&post=140&subd=demysterio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Fielding on Satire</title>
		<link>http://demysterio.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/henry-fielding-on-satire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neoclassical</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is Affectation…Now Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes, Vanity, or Hypocrisy: for as Vanity puts us on affecting false Characters, in order to purchase Applause; so Hypocrisy sets us on an Endeavour to avoid censure by Concealing our Vices under an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demysterio.wordpress.com&blog=93742&post=148&subd=demysterio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Out Loud about The Odyssey, Part 5</title>
		<link>http://demysterio.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/thinking-out-loud-about-the-odyssey-part-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neoclassical</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Odyssey, Books XVII-XXIV
This section drives home (no pun intended) the idea that hospitality reveals a person’s reverence towards the gods. Hospitality is said to be a test of the suitors, for example, when Odysseus as a beggar in Book XVII is told to ask them for food, and although they would not pass the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=demysterio.wordpress.com&blog=93742&post=137&subd=demysterio&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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