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Posted in Literary Criticism on Sep 25th, 2008
by John Murphy
Having just read a collection of masterful short-stories by Tobias Wolff, the issue of what makes storytelling such an intrinsic, necessary part of the human condition has been at the forefront of my mind. An article in the most recent issue of Scientific American approaches this age-old question from a left-brained perspective…
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plots from Shakespeare and the myth of St. George and the Dragon inspire this provocative mystery-thriller by CatholicFiction.net editor Debra Murphy.
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What [Orwell and Waugh] had most in common was a hatred of moral relativism. They both believed that morality is absolute, though they defined and applied it differently. But each believed with all his heart, brain, and soul that there were such things as moral right and moral wrong, and that these were not subject to changes in fashion. Moral relativism was, in fact, the gravest of sins. Everything else they believe in common flowed from this basic perception.
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