Archives – 2011 – January – 13  

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NARNIA WEEK: HEAVEN, heaven is a place, a place where NOTHING, nothing ever happens
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— 13 Jan 2011 mark sinker 3 comments

The depiction of paradise is as bold as it’s tricky — which is why it’s so rarely undertaken, obviously. There’s Dante, who made it the setting for the last and weakest book in his sword-and-sorcery trilogy. Powell and Pressbu[…]

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NARNIA WEEK / The FT Top 100 Songs: 12: MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This
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— 13 Jan 2011 Pete Baran 6 comments

It is serendipitous (in the non Cusack / Beckinsale way) that U Can’t Touch This has turned up in the dying throes of Narnia week. Because MC Hammer’s most well known hit has a surprisingly large number of parallels with the Narnia sequen[…]

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