Some write down scales or perhaps compose etudes. Some write simple tunes or even multi-part tunes. Others compose concertos and sonatas and symphonies which can’t be fully understood unless fully held in mind, if only for an instant. A section in the third movement might well play off a section in the first movement. Of … [Read more…]
Many modern Christians can’t understand why a distinguished man of letters, Vladimir Nabokov, would have written a novel about a man attracted to girls just before adolescence or perhaps just entering that ripening of sexual nature. The answer is as clear as the glorification of Mel Gibson’s gory movie, The Passion of the Christ. We … [Read more…]
Some readers might access this blog in ways that don’t display the main page and might not be aware that I have a variety of books, nonfiction and fiction, available for free download. Nonfiction Books and Articles See Unpublished Nonfiction Works or go directly to Unpublished Nonfiction Books for Download or Unpublished Short Nonfiction Works … [Read more…]
From a letter in the Library of America collection of Flannery O’Connor’s works (page 953): To see Christ as God and man is probably no more difficult today than it has always been, even if today there seem to be more reasons to doubt. For you it may be a matter of not being able … [Read more…]
In 2008, I put samples of three novels on this website for free download. I’ve now made the entire manuscript of A Man for Every Purpose available for personal use. This is a book that queries the human self-consciousness, the moral self-awareness: Where do you live? Past? Present? Future? All or none or one or … [Read more…]
Some of my writings are available for free download from Acts of Being: 2 articles, samples of 3 novels, and one complete book on human knowledge. Contact me at loydf at loydfueston.com if you’d like to read the entirety of one of those novels. Short articles I have two articles available for downloading. One discusses … [Read more…]
For those who might be interested in three novels I’ve written, there are sample chapters in pdf-format available for download. Go to Novels Ready for Publication.
In “To See a World in a Grain of Sand”, I noted that Melville thought Emerson and Thoreau to be morally insane — Hawthorne and Henry James, Sr. agreed. Melville noted in one place that the morality of those Cambridge sages was a spiritualized materialism that masked a total lack of charity, a total lack … [Read more…]
I wish to make a simple point, seemingly obvious but perhaps only because I’ve spent the past 20 years of my life teaching myself how to read and write books of substance, books which are worth reading by objective standards. When a friend recently read two of my theological books (one unpublished) and three of … [Read more…]
My second try on this post after computer problems. As I argued in “To See a World in a Grain of Sand”, speculative thought is necessary to create the worldviews, or lesser intellectual systems, which make sense of even revealed truths. Good speculative thought is also an imaginative, even spiritual, effort. And modern people are … [Read more…]