{If you missed it you can read Part One here, read Part Two here, read Part Three here, read Part Four here, and read Part Five here.} Lastly, the nameless dead man died foolishly. His epitaph will forever be: died eating library paste. What could be more absurd, more ridiculous, than a man eating library paste and […]
Books & Literature
A Lesson From a Tombstone: Part Five
{If you missed it you can read Part One here, read Part Two here, read Part Three here, and read Part Four here.} The nameless man was dead. And strangely, it wasn’t his dying that got to me. We will all die one day. As the fellow said, “No one gets off this planet alive.” Dying is […]
A Lesson from a Tombstone: Part Four
{If you missed it you can read Part One here, read Part Two here, and read Part Three here.} The dead man was nameless. From antiquity to modernity, a person’s name has typically been symbolic of his or her identity. For example, Solomon, the name of the King of Israel who famously wrote, there is a time to […]
Two Tips You Can Use Today for Better Reading Comprehension
Some readers are naturally better than others. To be on the bottom end of that spectrum is to be disadvantaged in many respects. After all, as the saying goes: readers are leaders. So what makes the difference? How does one move up the spectrum and improve his or her reading comprehension? In his classic work, […]
Video: Introduction to Old Western Culture with Roman Roads Media
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Write Like a Human
All ideas have consequences; and the best ones grow up to be fruitful benefactors to society. What many may not realize, however, is there is much labor and grief involved in bringing a good idea into the cold, cruel world. It starts as a thought conceived in the mind. After a while, it starts to take on […]
What You Miss By Not Reading the Literature of Old Western Culture
As a writer and Classical Christian teacher, I’m frequently asked why I think it’s important to study the classics, or what C.S. Lewis called Old Western Culture. Usually the questions go something like: What does it matter what a bunch of dead guys thought? Shouldn’t students be focused on an education that will get them […]
Value Creation Starts with Better Reading
One challenge that often plagues writers is a natural default to express only personal interests. Quite often, writers write because there is something in their percolator they want to get out into the world. Of course, there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. But, if writers are not careful, what they create will not be relevant […]
Now and Later: A Quick Word on YOLO
Aristotle believed poetry was a more philosophical and higher art than history because poetry expresses the universal. Poetry is a picture of man’s imagination, what he is capable of. History on the other hand expressed the particular. It is simply an account of what had actually happened. While I think Aristotle makes a valid point, human […]
Why Thucydides Still Matters
Of the numerous intrigues present in The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides’ (pronounced: thoo sid id ees) use of speeches is paramount. Within the narrative he includes forty-one different speeches. What is so interesting is how Thucydides approaches the inclusion of these speeches compared to how he ascertains his information for his narrative. Of the speeches he says, […]