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Greatness is a transitory experience.  It is never consistent.  It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind.  The person who experience greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.  He must reflect what is projected upon him.  And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic.  This is what [...]

“Homosexual”
Rowling said of Dumbledore
Not in the books, though
Haiku is a type of Japanese poetry that takes the form of three lines.  The first and third lines have five syllables and the second line has seven. ie:
5
7
5
So please contribute with your haikus with a fantasy/mythic/sci-fi bent.
Maybe we can get Travis to select a winner and hand [...]

Please comment regarding your opinion.

This looks good. Our Russel with Ridley Scott again.
Apparently, he lost a lot of weight to play this role.  I’m not too sure of Cate Blanchett as MAID Marian.  That’d be cultural anathema at the time.  But I do enjoy the Antipodean connection.  I hope our Russel is as good a shot with his longbow [...]

I have a hard time liking the Harry Potter movies.  They just don’t grasp the scope of the books especially the images that my mind created from Rowlings writing.  I think my own brain’s work is superior to what gets shown on the screen.  I think your brain’s work is superior too.
Now, I perfectly understand [...]

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Can you name a fictional wizard who lives in each of these locales?

I possessed nearly 5000 volumes in my library in Rome, but after reading them over many times, I found out that with 150 well-chosen books a man possesses a complete analysis of all human knowledge, or at least all that is either useful or desirable to be aquainted with.  I devoted three years of my [...]

Go ahead and use your brain and come up with the best one word summation of the following characters.

Here’s a video for people who, like me, don’t have their copy of Beedle the Bard yet.
Watch… and either you’ll be transported into realms of delight or you’ll feel like your head is being pushed into a bucket of blancmange.

Maybe you’ll die laughing.