Ink and Quill are Roman Catholic college students studying architecture and philosophy (respectively). Long-time friends and co-writers, they enjoy studying Ancient Greek and attempting to re-create the 1920s (or sometimes the 1220s). Ink rarely sleeps. Quill rarely posts. Both love what they do. They post together at With Eager Feet.
(This post is Ink speaking, writing solo.) Disclaimer: I don’t like writing about love in a public forum. It makes me feel vulnerable to public opinion. Some time ago, I attended a conference in my home diocese. Having connections with the organizers, I ended up attending the after-party as well, and had an absolute blast [...]
As we are sure you all have noticed, faerie tales are making a media comeback, bit by bit and day by day. Not that they hadn’t, already, since Disney pretty much owned that part: they are just making their way into everything now. Two Snow White films (Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror), [...]
Tempting as it was to declare that we should write a Discovery-channel-spinoff in the vein of this xkcd (Quill doing the words, Ink doing the doodles), being wrapped up in family matters has made that logistically impossible. Plus, it seemed more appropriate to write a heavier post. In light of today yesterday [1] being Black Friday, our [...]
Remember that series we started? With this handy-dandy little reference sheet? Well, you’ll probably need the Fire Nation blurb for this post. In the Avatar universe, fire plays the role of energy and passion, requiring balance and control to keep it from devouring everything in its path—and ultimately devouring itself. The fire-bender characters met in [...]
As an introduction to the series of posts on this animated TV series, I would like to introduce the characters and the plot. Be warned: this entire post-series is one long…
After reading the positive comments on our post on Ignitum Today, we have decided to turn it into a full-fledged series, starting with Avatar: The Last Airbender–from the beginning. The purpose of this post is to do two things. 1. To announce that we are, in fact, turning it into a series (and we’ll post [...]
I’ve often seen it said that the classical virtues– first enumerated and analyzed by pagan thinkers like Plato and Aristotle– and the Catholic virtues found in the teachings of Our Lord don’t fit together the way moral theology makes it seem: either the two sets of virtues hold together in tension at best or else [...]
As Catholics, we live in the world but are not of it; we must dialogue with the culture but not fall prey to the worship of it. And, in some cases, we must be able to cite common cultural references of our generations and be able to discuss them with our peers and friends. After [...]
I have a fish, and his name is Lloyd. He comes with me to college and lives in my room. Lloyd is a college fish; Lloyd is a Catholic fish. It sounds crazy, right? Goldfish can’t be Catholic any more than they can be college students. So how can I say I have a Catholic [...]
In virtually any country outside America where coffee is part of the culture, it is accompanied by a certain kind of ritual. As part of the morning routine, the coffee is made–a process and ritual in and of itself, especially in places like Italy, where “coffee” means “espresso.” As it brews, the aroma is savoured. [...]
It’s a commonplace we’ve all heard in one form or another: “Love is blind.” But is it really? It may be true that our passions, in their uncultivated condition, can color falsely our way of seeing, but even this has in itself the seed or material for seeing truly and bears within itself a truth [...]
“It may easily be conceived how great a trial it is to us to write the following history of ourselves; but we must not shrink from the task.” I was in fifth grade when Quill and his best friend (he goes by the handle Aecusim– that’s a bit of a story) came to my school. [...]
This famous image with its seemingly contradictory text (“This is not a pipe.”) led the way for an overhauling of art and artistic representation as we know it today. Painted by the astute Rene Magritte, a member of the Surrealist movement (associated with himself and other painters such as James Ensor and Salvador Dali), it [...]
Weariness.–Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair. Diversion.–When I have [...]
It may be a commonplace to call our age one that prides itself on freedom from the “miserable dark ages,” from obscurantism, superstition, and perhaps belief in anything beyond the inquiry of natural science; but while materialisms philosophical and commercial may seem to rule the day in much of the world, somehow the most popular [...]
Q. How do you pronounce “ignitum”? A. Well, you have some options. The Romans would have said ig-NEE-toom. In church, we’d say “in-YEE-toom.”
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