One of the (many) things I love about The Lord of the Rings is how remarkably anti-war it is. It feels like a counterintuitive concept; the book stands triumphant in the canon of the fantasy genre, a genre known for its swords and war-making. Even The Lord of the Rings is built around the precipice… Continue reading Wars And The War of the Ring
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Throwing Burritos
One of my courses this semester at NYU is one on Science Fiction. In this particular class we had read and were discussing Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? One of us commented about how Rachael pushing the goat off the building reminded him of that scene in Anchorman where Baxter gets… Continue reading Throwing Burritos
Essays, Not Rants! 