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a mournful shatter of frozen midnight

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

What actually woke him was the unearthly sound itself – a mournful shatter of frozen midnight falling to earth to pierce his heart and lodge there forever, neve...

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Waking up was like reversing a burial

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Waking up was like reversing a burial; I was a Cartesian brain alive in a coffin, aware of my own thoughts and the requirements of the living, but with no will ...

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Go ahead. Read pagans.

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

The refusal of Christians to read widely is an oddly modern impulse. Pastors and Christian pundits of the last hundred years seem more likely to circle the wago...

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Enlightenment Fundamentalists?

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

If you want to understand the Enlightenment in its complexity and contradictions, read Paul Hazard’s stylish classic. If you are looking for an intellectual sed...

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Steinhauer on le Carre

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

"The spymaster-as-hero is gone, replaced by the whistle-blower, the outsider who retains enough of his heart to be appalled by the slaughter of strays. In Cairo...

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