Fragment VII and Postscript ("Morning Song" by Ivan Popov)
Fragment VII In Praise of Good Will Brothers and sisters strive to live for an ideal outside of themselves, and within each person,...
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Colin Rahill
Dec 1, 20237 min read
Fragment VI ("Morning Song" by Ivan Popov)
Fragment VI Coherence There is no universal way of looking at things, or, more precisely, none that a human can comprehend, because...
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Fragment V ("Morning Song" by Ivan Popov)
Fragment V The Divine Image Before you were born your face was like a star seen from galaxies away, and if someone were to look closely...
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Fragment IV ("Morning Song" by Ivan Popov)
Fragment IV On Confronting One’s Sins … What a man can do when all inhibitions are removed, when moral norms evaporate and good and bad...
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Fragment III ("Morning Song" by Ivan Popov)
Fragment III The Axis of Life A life, at any given moment, may be understood in terms of its experience and experience only. Experience...
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Nov 16, 20236 min read
Fragment II ("Morning Song" by Ivan Popov)
Fragment II Animus To live is to suffer; to live meaningfully is to live in a way that justifies that suffering. How, even if I lived a...
Colin Rahill
Nov 10, 20237 min read
Morning Song by Ivan Popov (Preface by Iliana Popov)
Morning Song By Ivan Popov Preface, by Iliana Popov. For her brother August. I have been working on this for a while—a little over a...
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Nov 1, 20232 min read
Explanation of the Ending to a Friend (Castor & Pollux)
(As stated in text message) Q: “Ending was a bit confusing for me. The collision of Owen and Matthew after the death of Slack in...
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May 12, 20231 min read
Poem from "The Reed of God" by Caryll Houselander
I am your reed, sweet shepherd, glad to be. Now, if you will, breathe out your joy in me And make bright song. Or fill me with the soft...
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Chapter I
Chapter I Windows and Mirrors In which, in the late spring of the year two thousand and nineteen, Owen finds a mysterious book in a...
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100 Greatest Movies (as of 2019) [in alphabetical order]
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Why I Write
Answer to a Curious Person At six years old, I was given six months to live, though I did not know what that meant at the time. All I...
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On Chicago
It was past midnight, and I couldn’t take my eyes away from the window as we drove from O’Hare into the Loop. After dark is the best time...
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On the Arrogance of Writing a Book.
A preface to a book I wrote nine years ago, along with the cover design of that same book. Arrogant—that seems a fitting word for an...
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Read the Opening Pages of Castor & Pollux...
Prologue In which I do my utmost to relate the strange circumstances by which this book has come about, namely by the finding of a...
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