@oghofer

I tell stories, drink tea, read ancient literature, and celebrate the Oxford comma. 'A beastly American.' — C.S. Lewis, probably. Married to a 🇨🇦.

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Stoked and honored to present my paper "The Virginal and the Voluptuous: Lunar Imagery in Till We Have Faces" at the Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference in September!
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Samantha Josephine Stockings@HattersonFord23h
Life imitates art.
Haber Bandı
@haberbandicomOct 24
Ormanda birbirine sarılan sincap çift fotoğraflandı.
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Every age has its pros and cons, but due to medical advancements, if I were born even five or ten years earlier, my life would look very different now, and I possibly wouldn't be here. It's very fortunate I'm a mid-90s kid, and I'm hopeful treatments will continue to advance.
Jason A. Staples@jasonstaplesOct 24
Yes, the world is considerably better in 2026 than in 1985, 1995, 2005, or even 2015. And lots of people in each of those years thought there wouldn't be a world worth living in by this point. Lots of problems, but still better. Recognizing that alone should help lots of people.
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I'm gonna birth geniuses
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I wasn't like this as a teen at all. Neither were my friends. Neither is my brother (currently a teen). Neither are many of the teens I've been around in my adult life. If you think this way, you are telling on yourself.
Sean Gadhar
@GadharSeanOct 24
Replying to @DuckieLouise
Enjoy it. They turn 13. Sorry it's true. Then You are dumb They are sneaky The Boys start to smell & get lazy. The Girls talk behind their hands whenever you do anything. Both are sullen, mildly rude & upset if you ask them to so much as pick up a sock.
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If you resent teenagers, of course they will resent you. Why shouldn't they?
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No Context KJV@KJVnocontextOct 24
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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M.J. Piazza@Lady_of_ParadoxOct 25
I was going to wait until November, but…I’ve gotten three Nativity sets finished! $90 for the full set, or $60 for just the Holy Family. 100% handmade and free shipping! DM me (or comment) and we’ll exchange shipping and payment info!
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Ea Nasir V de Ur
@Arnau_fnvOct 24
That’s right you should buy some copper, I have a great supply for anyone interested
Dr. Tau Braun
@drtaubraunOct 23
Copper deficiency is the number one reason people get sick.
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Andrew Snyder
@AndrewnsnyderOct 23
The Mythic Mind Cosmos is live. It's a free, interactive map of the old medieval heavens, from the Moon to the Empyrean, with every episode, essay and game study in its own sphere. Turn the music on and wander. Link below.
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John H. Boyer
@johnhboyerOct 24
Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes. Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search. greekdrama.johnhboyer.com

The Greek Drama Reader — Greek tragedy and comedy, Greek and English side by side

Read the Greek plays in the original Greek with a facing English translation, side by side — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary lookup, citation, and full-text search across the corpus.

greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
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Jacob Allee
@jacob_alleeOct 24
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Fr Dylan Schrader@FrDylanSchraderOct 24
Latvian Chronicles of Narnia covers:
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Uh-oh
horse dentist
@equine__dentistOct 22
i didn’t realize cockatiels have such a hardcore diet
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R.A.R. Knight
@trad_poetOct 21
Another Narnia box set by the Folio Society. This one is a little easier to get, not cheap but easier, because there were more runs bound in this style. I believe the filled in gold ribbon spines are the first prints and later reprints removed the gold for text only. Don’t quote me on that. They are smart looking books, but I prefer the light blue redesign in 2012. For the purists, some may not like the hardcoded order displayed on the front cover images. Some may. I don’t own this set, just an FYI post. **Images by @FolioVault from eBay listings.
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If YOU had to design a Narnia cover (any or all of the books), what are some details you would include? I'd find a way to incorporate the robin on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. And use every excuse to show a horse (Puzzle and Jewel too). Bird- and horsemaxxing.
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I'm always surprised to see that the common misconception is that Lewis was universalist (easily debunked by considering the dwarfs in The Last Battle or the Tragedian in The Great Divorce) when it seems much easier to come away from The Great Divorce mistakenly believing it portrays annihilationism.
Michael F Kane
@MichaelFKaneOct 19
C.S. Lewis was NOT in fact a universalist. You could charitably say he was an inclusivist from The Great Divorce and The Last Battle. But he explicitly refutes universalism in The Problem of Pain.
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Paladin Posting@DevotionOathOct 19
PROBLEMATIC AGE GAP. MY PARTNER IS STILL MAKING STONE HANDAXES WHILE I AM ADORNED IN BEAUTIFUL BRONZE
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These are pretty great (I do have the small pedantic criticism that Fledge should be chestnut ("coppery") but they are very good)
Daniel N. Gullotta ⚓️@DanielGullottaOct 19
As a boy who very much judged books by their covers, these covers absolutely called to me as a kid.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Loose retelling of the Passion narrative and Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Snow Queen,” plus a bit of Le Morte d’Arthur Prince Caspian: A riff on Hamlet, with a dose of Norse myth and medieval romance The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Odyssey and the imrams (medieval Irish tales about journeys across the sea in pursuit of wonders) The Horse and His Boy: a loving homage to The Arabian Nights The Silver Chair: a medieval quest narrative with nods to Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene and Tam Lin The Magician’s Nephew: Paradise Lost meets Edith Nesbit The Last Battle: Edmund Spenser (Mother Hubberd’s Tale) and The Book of Revelation
Forrest Brazeal
@forrestbrazealOct 19
the chronicles of narnia don't get enough credit for being so different from each other. No two of them are written in the same genre. LWW: "conventional" hero's journey fantasy Prince Caspian: uncategorizable, no idea what he was going for here tbh Voyage of the Dawn Treader: CS Lewis' The Odyssey The Silver Chair: CS Lewis' Pilgrim's Progress Horse and His Boy: CS Lewis' Arabian Nights Magician's Nephew: multiverse scifi! The Last Battle: apocalypse fantasy very impressive, imo, to do this while returning you to a world and storytelling style that feels familiar from book to book
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