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2:58 AM

@Randal'Thor i was reading your question on the telmarines and wanted to bounce some ideas off you, i suppose.

the telmarines made me think of perhaps the inquisition, or the catholic church just before martin luther, or something along those lines -

they almost act "christian" but in the wrong way - as if they "know better", or something like that.

but they still have superstitions meaning they half-believe in the old ways - like letting the forests grow up by the sea. (another analogy that comes to mind is the crusaders)

it's like they believe, but are lost in their superiority by believing.

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Christophe Strobbe

9:55 AM

@Randal'Thor Those SAT-related questions unintentionally lend support to the criticism against standardised testing. It's just a business that comes at the cost of proper education.

Example of ciriticism The Case Against Standardized Testing, Harvard Political Review, 2015.

Anya Kamenetz: 5 Reasons standardized testing won’t slow down. Summary: money, money, money.

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Bookworm

1:37 PM

Q: Solzhenitsyn's Red Wheel

I've heard that all of Solzhenitsyn's work is to be in English by the centennial of his birth, which is this year. I'm trying to understand just what new English translations we can expect this year, especially in the Red Wheel series. Is the bibliography of Solzhenitsyn's The Red Wheel at Wikip...

aleksandr-solzhenitsyn

Mithrandir24601

2:05 PM

@heather I have a book by Rowan Williams on Narnia and was very surprised that I didn't find any mention of the Telmarines

heather

2:27 PM

@Mithrandir24601 huh, really?

that's kinda odd.

searching around on google i didn't find a ton either (at least of literary interpretation).

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Christophe Strobbe

4:09 PM

@Mithrandir24601 I assume that book is The Lion's World. I had no idea the Archbishop of Canterbury had written about that.

Mithrandir24601

4:51 PM

@ChristopheStrobbe yep - it's really good :)

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Christophe Strobbe

6:51 PM

Who is up for some serious research? I am offering two bounties without a deadline!

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Bookworm

10:04 PM

Q: What qualifies something as "Lovecraftian"?

I often hear the term "Lovecraftian" used in reference to describe certain elements of horror literature or film. I do understand this to be a reference to H.P. Lovecraft and his style of horror, but where I'm a little unclear is on what degree of similarity to style would classify a work as "Lov...