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Another Reason Why The 20th Century Was An Aberration

From Douglas Adams’s 1999 essay, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet: “Interactivity is one of those neologisms that [fuddy-duddies at the BBC] like to dangle between a pair of verbal tweezers, but the reason we suddenly need such a word is that during this century we have for the first time [...]

Out of Sync

For his collection, The Norse Myths, Kevin Crossley-Holland worked from “six primary literary sources fundamental to a study of Norse mythology” (xxxvii), though he cautions the reader that our knowledge of the myths suffers from “the filter of literary artifice, fragmented manuscripts, prejudice and contempt occasioned by conflicting religious belief, and hindsight” (xxxvi). His collection [...]

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