Tag Archives: Time

The Lingering Power of Watchmen

I first read Alan Moore’s Watchmen three years ago – at the time, it was a profoundly effective piece of media, and from my experience, it defied categorization as a work of fiction based on the its innate tactile and visual … Continue reading

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The Constant Apocalypse

I find Kermode’s thesis reassuring in its logical simplicity.  I believe that his assertion about the nature of the Apocalypse – that we “project ourselves … past the End, so as to see the structured whole” (p. 8 ) – … Continue reading

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Collective Revelation

Mankind’s fascination with the end of days – at once morbid and redemptive, fatalistic and liberational – stretches back as far as our history.  The sages of a given land illuminated prophecy of an end that was informed by and … Continue reading

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