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Category Archives: Letters
A Strange World in which East and West, Past and Present Intermingle
The Egyptians are so different from every other ancient people that one hardly knows what to make of them. They are the only people we know of who deliberately planned to convey in formation to other ages than their own. Continue reading
The Book of Mormon – a Bedizzening Variety of Stuff
This whole apocryphal world is brought together in the B. of M., a veritable handbook of motifs and traditions. As a work of fiction, as a mere intellectual tour de force, nothing could touch it – but along with that it is full of old Jewish lore that very few Jews have ever heard of, handles the desert situation in a way that delights my Medcans, and gives a picture of primitive Christianity that is right out of the Dead Sea Scrolls & the Nag Hamadi texts. What a theme for a kid of 23 to attempt. Continue reading
Posted in Ancient writings, Education & Academia, Letters
Tagged Apocrypha, Babylonian, Book of Mormon, Canaanite, Coffin Texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, Egyptian, Egyptian wisdom literature, Encyclopedia Judaica, Greek philosophy, James Joyce, Jew, Jewish, Jewish encyclopedia, Koran, Mormon scholarship, Moslem, Muslim, mythology, Old Testament, Quran, religion, religious scholarship, Shakespeare
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From a Muddy Foxhole of the “Bridge Too Far”
In the times of total confusion which lie ahead let us not forget how clearly our own behavior has foreshadowed the horrible commotion of the earth and the elements. I speak in the prophetic vein, because the signs of an impending readjustment in the face of the whole earth are fairly clear. Continue reading
Scholarship in America is as Dead as the Dodo
No, my dear fellow, scholarship in America is as dead as the dodo and has been for at least 30 years: go to their conventions if you don’t believe they’re a bunch of ineffectual zombies. Continue reading
Posted in Education & Academia, Letters
Tagged Arabic, educationist, educator, Iran, Mollah, Mullah
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It’s Brains and Character that Count, My Boy
Some local yokel, just out of the army and broke, has picked up twenty-one (21) million bucks around Moab: an American success-story–it’s brains and character that count, my boy. Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Nature, Philosophy
Tagged Moab, private enterprise, uranium mining
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Social Peace through Enforced Conformity
They settled instead for the poor shabby philosophy of St. Augustine – sit tight, don’t ask questions, do like the rest do, and you will be at least as safe as anybody else. Continue reading
Posted in Ancient writings, Letters, Philosophy, War
Tagged Battle of Holland, Bridge too Far, Half-truth, History, Holland, Nazi philosophy, philosophy
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The Automobile is Not an Unmitigated Blessing
If I had not been fortunate enough to be without a car this summer would perhaps never have discovered that wonderful world behind the first range. Which proves that the automobile is not an unmitigated blessing. Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Nature
Tagged Heber, Hiking, Nature, Recreation, Rock Canyon, Uinta Mountains, Uintah Mountains, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch Range
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Devoid of Permanence and the Feeling of Security
Once you go down to work in the fields you lose that power to survey the whole scene and move when the time comes in any direction. Continue reading
Posted in Education & Academia, Letters, Philosophy
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Clear Mirrors of the Celestial World
No matter how corrupt the world may become, the one who honestly searches can always find the true image of things as they were meant to be. Continue reading
Posted in Ancient writings, Letters, Philosophy
Tagged creation myth, legends, myth, mythology, New York Public Library
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The Most Nauseating Farrago of the Century
So much for the fibre of the American mind – it is the fibre of grated cheese. Continue reading
Posted in Letters, War
Tagged 101st Airborne, Aeschylus, Ardennes, Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge, Panzer, World War II, WW II
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