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.
Just in time for an especially rough Holiday season.
With apologies to Gil Scott-Heron and Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Please, remember me/At Halloween…
On the ghosts of the San Patricios
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in…
“Yes, Armageddon lies ahead. But so does Adam-ondi-Ahman!” -Neal A. Maxwell
Hard as it might be to remember now, but there was a hot minute in the mid-2000s when Mormonism’s own Jon Heder seemed to have an outside chance of making the jump to actual mainstream Hollywood stardom.
On why, perhaps, it was so important to JRR Tolkein that there be a King who returns, in his Lord of the Rings trilogy.
What’s missing from the sequel isn’t the vulgarity of the original, but its good-natured humor—the assurance that death is one big hearty joke.
On the pernicious rhetoric of “choosing to be happy.”
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