Mark Traphagen | July 31, 2011
I’m somewhat amused that on pp. 92-93 of Douglas Coupland’s novel The Gum Thief, Coupland has a character who is an extremely boring and self-absorbed novelist rattle off a recommended reading list that is really quite excellent. Just added all of the suggestions to my “to read” list on Goodreads. Here’s the passage, with links to [...]
Mark Traphagen | July 30, 2011
Dylan Brody is to storytelling what John Coltrane is to jazz instrumentals. Just as Coltrane never just “played” a song, but made every note his own and shaped them into something new and unique, so Dylan Brody never just “tells” a story. He treats the very words like musical notes, shaping them, bending them, shifting [...]
Mark Traphagen | May 31, 2011
We need the poets and painters to be prophets who provide the blueprints that the rest of us will only later realize have become the actual building.
Mark Traphagen | April 13, 2011
This blog hasn’t been about theology or religion for some time now, but I do want to give a shout out to IandIBook.com, the new official site of the book Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament by Peter Enns. Dr. Enns was one of my Old Testament professors at Westminster Theological [...]
Mark Traphagen | March 13, 2011
Following Carlo’s death, Emily becomes a “hermit in [her] father’s house.” Though the behavior terrifies and disgusts her, she seems powerless in its grip.
Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for Virante, an Internet Marketing firm.Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS Comments RSS
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