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Morality, The Lord of the Rings, and Awkward Jokes w/ Dr Peter Kreeft

Pints With Aquinas

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CSO Is the Greatest Science Fiction Novel Ever Written

I've read the first two chapters of CSO and I want to keep reading it because everyone has been telling me to. The protagonist, who is a rather dull person, dies on page 70 or something. And the book is 200 pages long. So what? Get to at least that? Yes. It's almost allegorical. All right, I'll read it.CSO is the greatest science fiction novel ever written. When was it written? Like 60s? In the 60s? He wrote it in reparation for bombing Monte Cassino. Was an aviator in World War II; he dropped some of the bombs on the monastery. Wow. Well, let me motivate you

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