Book ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Now, after Constantine turned the Empire Xian, things were a little different.
Oh, I meant in that religion became a little more religous to the Romans with Xianity, than it had been with the pantheon. Course, Romans were pretty pragmatic and a lot of them converted easily, with no real qualms...but many were mightily worried about the Emperor taking religion so seriously.
Disquieting in its resonance. Though I don't really believe...well, maybe that's a thought best expressed somewhere else.
Now I"m curious, Erika.
I don't really believe Bush is for real. I think that is the appearance of conviction. But how does heathen me know? Apart from that, color me Roman.
I think the conviction is real. BUT I don't think he's ever thought about religion at all; I think he seized it as an absolute idea, a my way or the highway approach.
St. Brighid looks a lot like the Celtic goddess who preceded her.
There was a very well done bit about this in The Book of Kells by R. A. MacAvoy
OK, Erin, you said it better. I'm not sure if I should say "Thank you," or "Stop it!"
There's also interestin stuff about this in Melvyn Bragg's Credo , which I've just finished and throughly recommend to anyone who liked The Book Of Kells - it's about St's Wilfred, Cuthbert and Bega in 7th Centrury Northumberland. And yes, it is by that Melvyn Bragg.
Has anybody read The Family Trade by Charles Stoss? Amazon says I want it.
Shakespeare fits in literary, right? As does Gorey, of course. So here are The Gashlyspeare Tinies.
A sample:
A is for Antigonus, lunch for a bear
B is for Banquo (but not for his heir)