Recent content by Cassiel666

*Do not post info on how to obtain illegal software on ENWorld* Grazzt np. I can even stop posting altogether. Observe.

I get the most use out of philosophy books, in general, with a heavy emphasis in metaphysics. I find that the best way to create fantasy is to be acquainted with the necessary conditions for its possibility. Keeping that in mind, history books are good too; the primary ones anyway, like Livy...

Avril Lavigne is punk rock? I wonder what A.F.I. thinks about that.

Do you swear to tell the Prufrock, the whole Prufrock, and nothing but the Prufrock? This is for the many Prufrock enthusiasts, who, chances are, have never seen it. It was edited from the final (published) text of the poem. "Prufrock's Pervigilium" Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through...

Oakenfold, Sasha & Digweed (seperate and together), DJ Tiesto, Orbital, Aphex Twin, Carl Cox.. that's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm mostly an indie guy tho, Fat Wreck Chords, Drive Thru, Vagrant...

Hey ForceUser, I had Gunn as a professor at Berkeley before he retired. I'm surprised that at least a few of the people here have read more modern poets like Gunn and Creeley--Gunn is not Black Mountain but those who enjoy him or Creeley will probably also enjoy Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder and...

Latin Titles I thought giving books Latin titles was kind of exotic when I was 15 or 16, but after I learned Latin in college the charm wore off. Most books titled this way are just wrong.. just because it translates into an acceptable idiom in English doesn't mean the idiom is acceptable in...

Re: A Lament for WotC! Did you really have to go to the trouble of blank verse? Even with the line-initial inversion in 3... :) Little measure indeed. That, my friend, is the measure of Dante and Shakespeare. Not even the the hexameter is greater...

Re: Re: In the beginning was the word... Amusing that it was banned from GenCon.. What I wonder, though, is what makes this setting different from living in the regular world? I mean, half the people on the planet don't believe in a god or an afterlife anyway, so what really changes when God...

In the beginning was the word... As regards the former paragraph: I was thinking more of rival Christian factions that had a greater stake in the beadth of religious experience, like Gnosticism/Manicheism. The competitors that orthodox Christianity cut down, in other words. That much, at...

Los Nephilimos Nephilim is Hebrew for “fallen ones,” or “those who fell,” though they are actually the offspring of the fallen, who are traditionally believed to have been angels. This alternate version of an angelic fall from grace was mostly edited out of the Christian side of things (i.e...