Yatterings

I was rewatching Season 2 of Buffy last night and it occured to me that the Surprise / Innocence episodes are perhap the true dark heart of the series. Much is made of the search for the truth of the First Slayer but that only explains one aspect.
The major underlying theme of Buffy is losing [...]

Reading both the Box of Delights and the Hobbit, I was struck by the way that both authors use an anachronistic Medieval period to intersect and comment on the Modern.
Both authors had served in the Great War and both lived in Oxford: Tolkien on Northmoor Road and Masefield in Boar’s Hill. Furthermore, both had [...]