Shelley begins his “A Defense of Poetry” by making a distinction between reason and imagination: “Reason is the enumeration of quantities already known; imagination is the perception of the value of those quantities, both separately and as a whole.”
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Satan and Tech
The L.A. Times posted a review of Norman Mailer’s new book with Mike Lennon, On God: An Uncommon Conversation: Mailer’s new book, “On God: An Uncommon Conversation,” may best be read in such a context — although, in truth, it’s probably best not read at all. Framed as a series of Socratic dialogues between Mailer [...]
Shelley’s Satanic Poet
Shelley, in his A Defense of Poetry, begins by making a distinction between reason and imagination: “Reason is the enumeration of quantities already known; imagination is the perception of the value of those quantities, both separately and as a whole.”
The Cult of Satan
Paradise was a dull place. Just what did the archetypal patriarch expect humans to do living their lives in the Garden of Eden? Even before the creation of Earth, Lucifer found the living conditions in God’s kingdom to be less-than-perfect and decided some changes needed to be made. Lucifer acted, was cast down, and became Satan, the epitome of evil, and the paradigmatic rebel.
