Essays

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.

After China

Jacob and I share the same first name and briefly shared the same bed–I slept in it Fall ’06, he in Winter ’07. The bed

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Confessions of an ex-Weezer Fan

A couple weeks ago in a POST about Jack White’s solo career, I wrote that to follow Jack White’s post-Stripes career is similar to being a post-’90s Weezer fan—I feel like that could use some more context.

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Jack White’s Solo Career Makes Me Miss Meg White

A roundabout reminder that we are to “bear one another’s burdens, that they may be light”–and that not condescendingly, not patronizingly, but with a very real sense of our irrevocable interdependence, and of how that reliance on each other is what makes us feel alive.

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Some Holy Ghost

“Holy Ghost,” from Low’s 2013 album The Invisible Way, is lyrically the most straight-forward LDS song in their extensive catalogue.

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On Swearing

“I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth-faced hypocrite.” -Joseph Smith

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