Jan 26, 2009

The point that apocalyptic makes is not only that people who wear crowns and who claim to foster justice by the swords are not as strong as they think… It is that people who bear crosses are working with the grain of the universe. One does not come to that belief by reducing social process to mechanical and statistical models, nor by winning some of...

Jan 21, 2009

I enjoyed the first two-thirds of this book. It's a slightly-futuristic pulp-fiction tale, with likeable characters and (as always) Gene Wolfe's delightfully dry voice.

Jan 21, 2009

You write that you prayed fervently and at once you were calmed, receiving an inner assurance that you would be released from oppression; and then, indeed, it was so. Recall how you prayed and always strive to pray this way, so that prayer comes from the heart and is not just thought by the mind and chattered by the tongue...