Philip Pullman | General Lordisimo's Apocalypse

10 Books That Have Stayed With Me

• December 12, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in contemplation, General Destruction, Literature
Tags: 'Salem's Lot, a Brief history of Time, A Short History of Nearly Everything, A Walk in the Woods, authors, Bill Bryson, books, Dark Banquet, Dracula, Dune, Edward Gorey, Ernest Hemingway, Foundation, Frank Herbert, Frankenstein, fyodor dostoevsky, Georges Bataille, Hamlet, His Dark Materials, Iain M. Banks, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Bellairs, Julius Caesar, Little Big, Mary Shelley, Moby Dick, Philip Pullman, reading, Romeo and Juliet, Stephen King, The Amber Spyglass, The Brothers Karamazov, The Culture, The Dark Tower, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The Golden Compass, The Hobbit, The House with the Clocks in Its Walls, The Lord of the Rings, The Shining, The Subtle Knife, The Sun Also Rises, Theory of Religion, William Shakespeare

Contemplation: The Importance and Limits of Free Speech

• September 17, 2012 • 2 Comments

Posted in contemplation, General Destruction
Tags: Arab Spring, Bill of Rights, contemplation, democracy, First Amendment, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, government, Islam, Philip Pullman, philosophy, Religion, speech, The New York Times, United States

Contemplation: Philip K. Dick and Gnosticism

• May 23, 2012 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Blade Runner, contemplation, Do Androids Drean of Electric Sheep, His Dark Materials, novels, Philip K. Dick, Philip Pullman, philosophy, sci-fi, science fiction, Simon Critchley, The Matrix, The New York Times, themes

Contemplation: Spoiler Alerts, Wikipedia, and the Risk of Knowledge

• September 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Agatha Christie, cencorship, knowledge, Philip Pullman, risk of knowledge, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, The Mousetrap, The New York Times, wikipedia

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