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Res Gestae

Things done, or maybe things read.

Tag: The Sublime

Written by Bronte CronsberryAugust 8, 2020August 26, 2020

Terrifyingly Indifferent: Reflections on Middle Earth After Camping

Lord of the Rings is not known for its subtle layers of moral complexity. There is no flicker of doubt regarding Sauron’s evil plans or the innate goodness of hobbits. JRR Tolkien was consistent in his use of clear moral coding both with characters and with world building which is particularly clear in the contrasting […]

Written by Bronte CronsberrySeptember 11, 2019

Confronting the Terror of the Infinite: The Romantic Poets and Interstellar

In the grand scheme of the universe humans are very small and probably lacking any degree of importance – a fact that humanity has been aware of and sought to minimize through an understanding of the world we exist in. The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth look back on a concept developed […]

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