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Romantic Chivalry: Part 1. Observations of a knight.

25 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments YourFavoriteCircle

The following text is from my substack.   Let the demons not depart the wise, for their presence signal the angels.As the masculine and feminine join, so too the odds and evens.Through Light and Dark, all flows in your realm.Neither which is fair, or...

More detailed thoughts about "Rip Van Winkle"

26 Apr 2022 4 minute read 1 comment DoctorPlatypus

Based on the notes included as part of "Rip Van Winkle", we know that the narrator is Dietrich Knickerbocker, who is Dutch. If he's anything like the narrator for "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" he is very much biased in favor of the Dutch. (Ichabod Crane...

Medievalist musings on "Rip Van Winkle"

26 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus

In the context of my latter-day dream visions project, I have been reading and thinking about "Rip Van Winkle" as an early American fiction that may or may not inherit the medieval dream vision genre. I'm not ready yet to write the full argument abou...