
Brief Notes on the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Fall of Babylon
“O Babylon, O Babylon, we bid thee farewell…”
Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.

“O Babylon, O Babylon, we bid thee farewell…”

How a pair of 1984 Punk Rock double-albums punched way above their weight-class–as did Joseph Smith–as we must relearn to do today.

An essay on thwarted ambitions, road-trips, Rexburg, and the Yangtze River.

Do not procrastinate the day of your repentance.

Just who are these annotations for? For that matter, who is the Book of Mormon for?

My children’s faces are nothing like the sun

Or, on following the Savior’s example in loving the cast-off and despised.
Someone please perform the “To be or not to be” soliloquy in front of a Nativity.

“Whosoever shall offend these little ones, it were better that a millstone be hung from his neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
-Matthew 18:6

“Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.”
-Matthew 21:31
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