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Last Call Book Review

Last Call Book Review

Last Call by Tim Powers Perennial 2003 $15.95; 535 pages ISBN 038072846X Last Call [Amazon link] is one of my all time favorite books. I can return to this book again and again, and find something different in it each time. According to LibraryThing, the last time I read

The Long View: The Holy Roman Empire

The idea of the King holds great power in the West, even when actual kings and queens largely do not. For us Westerners, what the Emperor means comes from Rome through Charlemagne and Otto I. There is a mythical undercurrent however, that is far older. The Holy Roman Empire By

Myths have Daimonic Power

The daimonic force of great myths and legends From The Notion Club Papers by JRR Tolkien – in Sauron Defeated, Volume IX of the History of Middle Earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien. Page 228, Ramer speaking: “I don’t think you realize, I don’t think any of us realize, the