I frequently use AI, checking it against my knowledge and other sources. Vigano is 83. The probability from zero to one that Francis, 87, knows how to use AI is close to zero. Ha-ha, John-Henry let YouTube's auto-translate generate captions for his video: "Right" is "rite". Before posting the fantasy Alexander and I wrote, YT asked me if I wanted captions. Nope. The blind can listen.
Example of doxa by AI Overview: Doxa is an ancient Greek word that means "opinion, reputation, what is said of things or people". It can also refer to a common belief or popular opinion. In classical rhetoric, doxa is often contrasted with episteme, which means "knowledge". Here are some other definitions of doxa:
All I had to do was italicize the Greek word "doxa" once. APA Style: Italics are required for non-English words, phrases, and abbreviations if they might be unfamiliar to readers, but only on the first use. If the same word, phrase, or abbreviation is used later in the same document, it should be written without italics. My knowledge: Foreign words are not italicized if they have entered the English language and are commonly used and understood. An example is "amigo". Occasionally, I alter style in my blog to make it more appealing visually. The amount of time spent writing this answer was 10 minutes. YouTube AI helps one video connect to a related video. I'm not really that smart.
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“...But it’s striking that Shakespeare uses Catholic content rather differently from his contemporary dramatists, often embracing the contradictory connotations of, say, a friar [Romeo and Juliet], exploiting the figure’s nostalgic and threatening associations at the same time. This exploration of ambiguity seems to have been one way in which he thought through not only religious controversies, but also the very act of making fiction itself....” By Gillian Woods, January 23, 2016 https://blog.oup.com/2016/01/what-was-shakespeares-religion/#:~:text=Like%20other%20English%20subjects%20who,least%2C%20he%20was%20a%20Protestant. As a middle child, I can live with ambiguity, but I learned as much or more from reading the stoics as reading Shakespeare, requiring too many annotations. The Douay-Rheims (Shakespeare time) has fewer annotations than other Bibles, and the 1962 Missal has virtually none. Stoics confirmed my suspicions:
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. If I'm right, I think Mark was thinking of affection.
on one side of my deathbed on the other side at the foot the Man of the Cross staring
Alexander decided that our next fantasy will be on the 5th Commandment, Thou shalt not kill. What is a killing? Wilful murder. There are many circumstances when erasing an adult is justified.
Most adults don't believe a thing I say. How so? Perception is clouded, and the cross is rejected. Children have not reached that stage. Alexander's mind is unclouded, and he knows my loyalty. Alexander Yu, my writing student, and I wrote a fantasy story, "American Charger False Witness", for YouTube. The story is in six parts, and total listening time is about 45 minutes. Please make comments there or here. Alexander and I learn from your comments. Make sure to like and subscribe on YouTube.
Allison Ramirez of Catholic Writers Guild edited the story, and I used Microsoft’s Clipchamp to produce the videos. Enter my name, Robert E Dunn, into the YouTube search box. Our plan is to write more fantasy and head for France. Any political views expressed are mine. Alexander's a boy. Working editors, not gatherings, taught me how to write.
Father Robert Patrick Ruthven Murray (1925-2018) was an English Roman Catholic theologian, Jesuit, and grandson of Sir James Murray, founder of the Oxford English Dictionary. 1959 Father Murray entered the Society of Jesus in 1949 and was ordained in 1959. On August 1, 1959, Tolkien served Murray’s first Mass. 1963 Beginning in 1963, Murray was on the Faculty of Heythrop College in Oxfordshire and London. 1973 On September 6, 1973, four days after Tolkien’s death, Father Murray assisted in a requiem Mass at the Church of St Anthony of Padua, Headington, Oxford. 1981 Tolkien and Murray had corresponded frequently. Letters on religion were numbered 142, 156, and 209 by the editor and published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien in 1981. Tolkien’s biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, was editor, and Tolkien’s son, Christopher, assisted. A personal friend of the Tolkien family since 1944, Murray proofread drafts and manuscripts of The Lord of the Rings. The novel is about 1,000 pages, which makes me wonder how a priest could give so much time to the book. At the time there were many priests, notably Jesuits, and priestly duties could be dispersed across a wide network, but now their numbers have dwindled. Look at the form of address used by Tolkien. All I can say is that quality Catholic sociability has declined. This was my brother's favorite story. He died 9/12/2017.
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54 poems 74 short stories 41 novels 169 classics (guaranteed) Cather's story was published in 1900, two weeks after Crane's death. They met at the offices of the Nebraska State Journal after it had published The Red Badge of Courage. He was just two years older than Cather and died from TB.
Alexander and I will be publishing content on Patreon in the coming weeks. You can find us by going to patreon.com when the account is up and running. I will keep you posted.
Fantasy is the genre Alexander and I are trying to break into with our short story series. Alexander, age 10 and very gifted, happens to be Chinese American. The four main characters are adults, and none are black or queer, nor would Alexander even be thinking about that, but these types fill the teen section of your public library, nor is the ethnicity of our story kids germane.
The term “tofu project” was first coined by Premier Zhu Rongji in 1998, who said on a tour of flood dykes on the Yangtze River that they were as flimsy and porous as tofu dregs, the leftover bits in the tofu-making process. Tofu buildings collapse and elevators and escalators with them, bridges and highways, too. One person on YT quipped about a falling bridge, "Double purpose roadway - avalanche." Another quipped: "China drops a few zeroes when reporting deaths."
I had to look this one up: ratchet means an uncouth woman. The French Laundry in Napa serves a delicious Giant Oreo cookie for dessert. This is all well and good, but as I've said numerous times, the single issue that really divides this country is abortion. If you are a woman in an abusive relationship, consult a Catholic priest. The Church has taught that abortion is grave sin (the Didache) since the 1st century.
Harris has no children and is stepmother to her husband's two children, both in their 20s. She received a $500,000 advance from the publication of three books, one a memoir, The Truths We Hold. Truth doesn't change because we are living in the 21st century. The size of my readership is pretty good, but I seem to be preaching to the choir, which is not my aim and never has been. While I wait for editing to be finished on the short stories Alexander and I are co-writing, I will continue blogging. The first story is in editing with ScottEditorial.com. Here is a sample of a fantasy arm to illustrate our direction. One must wonder, as the months and months have rolled by, who had a finger on the "nuclear button", a figurative term, and who does now? Who is singular and plural, but the commander-in-chief makes the final decision in a time of war.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11: [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; . . . "...These cases settled whether a state of war could exist without a formal declaration by Congress. When hostile action is taken against the Nation or against its citizens or commerce, the President may resort to force in response. "But whether the Constitution empowers the President to commit troops abroad to further national interests absent a declaration of war or specific congressional authorization short of such a declaration has been controversial.21 "The Supreme Court has not addressed this issue22 and lower courts have generally not adjudicated the matter on political question grounds.23 Absent judicial guidance, Congress and the President have had to reach accommodations with each other."24 https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C11-3/ALDE_00013589/#:~:text=Article%20I%2C%20Section%208%2C%20Clause,Land%20and%20Water%3B%20.%20.%20.&text=The%20Articles%20of%20Confederation%20vested,foreign%20relations%20in%20the%20Congress. “Ghost gun” is a term used to describe homemade weapons constructed from parts often purchased online. They are problematic in that they are difficult to trace for lack of serial numbers and background checks.
The Victorian Era produced six inventions: telephone, adhesive postage stamp, underground railway, public flush toilet, electric light bulb, and pneumatic tire. Great authors came into view, too: the Brontë sisters, Collins, Thackeray, Doyle, Stevenson, Tennyson, Kipling, Wilde, Stoker, and Hardy. My Reading List honors them all, and today is a poem by Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer, best known for Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses. He traveled widely and spent time in California at Monterey, San Francisco, and St. Helena (Napa Valley). Fact: French was the official language of England from 1066 to 1362. At the Battle of Hastings, William II of Normandy defeated King Harold II of England on Oct. 14, 1066, and was crowned king at London on Christmas Day. Basically, the sweep of history advanced like this: from Greek to Latin to French to English. "He who is brave is free." -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A very qualified woman from the Catholic Writers Guild has graciously agreed to work with me on the first short story co-written by Alexander. It is an action fantasy set in the year 2025. Our series is not about zombies: the characters surpass the zombies in this Haiku, an example of his brilliance that took us five minutes to write:
Zombies of the night Go dream your last dream tonight Bid farewell to light These three find a unique form of fraternity. If you are a lonely guy, you could try their method. The word astronaut is derived from the Romanized Ancient Greek words astron and nautes, which translate to stars and sailor, respectively, and first appeared in the 1880 novel Across the Zodiac by English author Percy Greg to describe a spaceship.
Some Related Forms of Fiction
Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story of morality in prose or verse that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, meaning they have human characteristics. Legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions believed or perceived to have taken place in human history, a story that can demonstrate human values and possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude, the appearance of being true. Allegory is a literary device, either narrative or visual, in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance. (This is what my writing student and I are attempting.) Parable is a succinct, didactic story in prose or verse that illustrates one or more instructive lessons on, or principles of, morality and differs from fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. This entry quotes Wikipedia in part to help those who do not understand what a parable is. See Quran plagiarized. Ignorance of fiction ends the formation of a polymath. In my reading list are examples of fable, "Lemmings", and allegory, "Harrison Bergeron". At age 15, she changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because she did not like her given name and, as a tomboy, felt that a conventionally masculine name was better. She is 67 and married. I am co-writing something with my writing student for a general audience.
The 1977 film Star Wars was shot in Tunisia and Death Valley (CA) and on soundstages in England. One could accuse George Lucas of cultural appropriation when he borrowed "May the Force be with you" from the Mass's "Dominus vobiscum", but we were flattered. |
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