Columnists
Ink and Quill

Queen of Hearts

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

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Life
Ink and Quill

Two Days, Two Ways

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

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Entertainment
Ink and Quill

Goodness in the Media: The Series

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

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Entertainment
Ink and Quill

Coffee and Ritual

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

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Life
Ink and Quill

To Know and to Love

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,

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Catholic Education
Ink and Quill

Apologia pro vitis suis

“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

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Columnists
Ink and Quill

Ceci n’est pas une pipe

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

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Columnists
Ink and Quill

Divertissement and Distraction

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,

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Books
Ink and Quill

The Truth of Fairy Tales

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

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