Tag Archives: Chesterton

“Below the deserts…

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Nolie Alcarturiel

Think of this as a research paper minus the paper, with just the quotes. I started putting this together ages ago, when I first read the book which bookends this collection, but never quite put the finishing touches to it … Continue reading →

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My Hobbit Hole

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Nolie Alcarturiel

A very picture-heavy post follows. You have been warned. Kitchen: Dining room: Living room: Spare Oom: Bonus two fuzzy pictures of me showing off the Black Wasp work-in-progress, functionally a sideless gown, and currently hanging over the back of the … Continue reading →

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Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Nolie Alcarturiel

Originally posted on Of Dreams and Swords:
This is going to be a long post. This “artist’s statement” was supposed to be a lot shorter, but you know how that goes. I even tried to abridge it and then found…

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Io! Io!

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Nolie Alcarturiel

Christus surrexit! On Saturday evening I finished the first complete draft of The Two-Legged League.  First glimpses of characters came late May ’18: Llewellyn (called Thew): dark-haired undergrad of the Perry type, who works with a typewriter in his shirt-sleeves. Penelope, … Continue reading →

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Having run out of witty titles

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Nolie Alcarturiel

The silence last week was quite accidental. We’re approaching the end of the orchestra season (concert on Saturday! Anyone want to come?) and I’ve actually worked a little bit, and am not too far behind on Camp NaNo, although the stats … Continue reading →

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Recent reading

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Nolie Alcarturiel

Apologies for my disappearance. The pace of. . . *gestures at things-in-general* has been picking up. I don’t remember everything I’ve read since I stopped doing monthly wrap-up posts, but I’ve read some interesting things lately and I thought I … Continue reading →

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“I’m just the amanuensis, I don’t know anything!”

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Nolie Alcarturiel

Two of my writing projects share the highest-priority place at the moment, but one of them gets longer faster than the other. They are The Two-Legged League and Levi’s story, tentatively titled So That Others May Live. The latter is at 37,000 words … Continue reading →

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Book recommendations!

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Nolie Alcarturiel

I have strong and stubborn objections to e-books, for various reasons, but I raise the ban on them in the case of Project Gutenberg. They take out-of-print and no longer copyrighted books and send them out into the world for … Continue reading →

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Hallo, I am a fundamentalist.

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Nolie Alcarturiel

Looking over the archives, I observe that I have not been controversial on the blog in entirely too long. (Since Dec 21, to be exact.) If I do this right I will probably alienate two halves of my readership, but the … Continue reading →

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All your rabbit-trails in one handy place

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Nolie Alcarturiel

During the semester, when things are crazier than normal, I have a tendency to open cans of worms or find the openings of rabbit-holes, and have to note them for later. Sometimes I leave links to things in random e-mail … Continue reading →

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