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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Pushing your own "Dawn Treader"
I went to see the new movie version of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader on my birthday and I was sorely disappointed. I liked The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and I was a little disappointed with Prince Caspian — if the pattern continues I wonder what depths of disappointment I might sink […]
Wisdom from the Dodecahedron
The Dodecahedron is a character from the book The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. He lives in the city of Digitopolis at the base of the Mountains of Ignorance. Here is his description from the book (page 145)
He was constructed (for that’s really the only way to describe him) of a large assortment of lines […]
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