myths

August 13, 2013

Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany | Books | theguardian.com

A whole new world of magic animals, brave young princes and evil witches has come to light with the discovery of 500 new fairytales, which were locked away in an archive in Regensburg, Germany for over 150 years. The tales… Continue reading
August 13, 2012

In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades | Books | guardian.co.uk

I always a enjoy a good piece of sober thinking that points out the implicit slippery slope fallacy lurking in so many Jeremiah like wailings of the “end is nye”… It’s tempting to get caught up in paradigm-shift apocalypticism, but… Continue reading