http://www.haloscan.com/ Latest comments for daleprice. Syndicated by HaloScan http://www.haloscan.com/ http://www.haloscan.com/halolink.gif http://www.haloscan.com/ 88 31 Commenting Powered by HaloScan.com http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsr#348492 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:06:57 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348492 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348492 Dear Mr. Stirling: Thanks for your comments to me about CS Lewis. I agree, I should read more of of Lewis' stuff. Examples you mentioned being his literary criticism and A GRIEF OBSERVED. I do have other works of his like THE FOUR LOVES. One writer I can admit to being obsessed about is the late Poul Anderson. PA has deeply and strongly affected my mind and imagination ever since I first rea... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsr#348491 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:34:03 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348491 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348491 Hi, Zach! Thanks for your note. Ha! Amusing, the point you made that Fr. Ignatius could have witnessed the marriage of Rudi and Mathilda either among the neo Norse communities or even on Nantucket. I completely forgot about Fr. Ignatius. Perhaps Mathilda was thinking it would be politically better or more prudent for them to marry back home, with plenty of witnesses from both the PPA and the... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsr#348490 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:23:39 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348490 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348490 Steve Stirling said: -- not anti-science, but perhaps anti-a-certain-concept-of-science. True enough. Godel's incompleteness theorems are generally undisputed, Penrose is a well-accepted authority, and I don't know many astrophysicists who will pretend that they will ever have any clue as to what the universe was like 10^-14 seconds after the big bang and earlier. The best evidence indic... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsr#348487 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:56:37 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348487 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348487 Sean, I read Rudi as not being surprised that Matti will wait until marriage (he's well aware of that), but that Matti would agree to marry him but insist that their marriage not occur until their return to Montival. Especially with a priest handy! That's where she surprises (and frustrates!) him. Perhaps he shouldn't have been surprised, in which case I think we can blame hi http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsr#348486 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:43:23 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348486 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348486 "I've read a lot of CS Lewis, but not everything! THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, THE GREAT DIVORCE, MERE CHRISTIANITY, his "Space Trilogy," are what comes most easily to mind." -- his literary cricitism is worth reading, as are a number of his stories dealing with the nature of myth. And "A Grief Observed" is extremely moving. I've always been tickled by his comment on why he didn't deal with the http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsr#348485 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:38:15 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348485 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348485 "Thus, the Emberverse series, though firmly rooted in a rational universe seems to play with the idea of what if the universe, though rational and scientific, is transcendent? Possibly anti-science science fiction?" -- not anti-science, but perhaps anti-a-certain-concept-of-science. The self-confident Whiggery you mention was a product of the Newtonian/Enlightenment moment, before it had b http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsr#348484 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:09:15 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348484 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/1340230234617689734/?src=hsrs#348484 Dear Mr. Stirling: I won't repeat my carping comments about the neo Norse or why I didn't find Rudi's vision at Nantucket quite satisfactory. I do want to stress THE SWORD OF THE LADY gave me great pleasure. I do regret how Odard Liu died, tho. He was getting to be a very interesting and well developed character. I might have preferred either Mary or Ritva Havel getting knocked off. After al... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/2582377871740366595/?src=hsr#348483 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:36:04 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/2582377871740366595/?src=hsrs#348483 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/2582377871740366595/?src=hsrs#348483 Being in sales, it never fails to bring a sad shake of the head seeing the industrial complexes in Madison Hts, Troy and Livonia et al littered with 'For Lease' and 'For Sale' signs. I pray for the success of my customers, not just for my sake, but for the numerous families and others who rely on those businesses. If anyone can survive the next 2 years, then they'll emerge the stronger for it.... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/2582377871740366595/?src=hsr#348482 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:28:12 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/2582377871740366595/?src=hsrs#348482 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/2582377871740366595/?src=hsrs#348482 A building supply company here in Norwalk, OH, is shutting down after 65+ years. Sad, indeed. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/2582377871740366595/?src=hsr#348481 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:09:12 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/2582377871740366595/?src=hsrs#348481 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/daleprice/2582377871740366595/?src=hsrs#348481 This year everyone who has a job has good reason to thank God next Thursday, and to dig extra deep to help those who don't.