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From “Finding God in the Matrix”, an essay by Paul Fontana, in Taking the Red Pill: Science Philosophy and Religion in the Matrix The instant cult status of The Matrix, is, I believe, due to the subtext of exile, restoration and the fulfillment of eschatological hope, which in a roundabout way, speaks to its audience. […]

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Watching the movie The Matrix , I always start to laugh at the scene where Neo is being reprimanded in his boss’ office and the window washers working in the background streak squeaky squeegees on the skyscraper glass. I think it is probably the absurdity and humor in the situation, a joke about the mundane […]

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Another reason I won’t be up too late tonight – other than the fact that I am feeling pretty itchy from last night’s bug bites – is that I was up late last night reading The Probable Future . Once again a Seattle Times review caught my eye. The author, Alice Hoffman, mixed together quite […]

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Again I read another Seattle Times review and put a book on hold at the library – this time it was Douglas Coupland’s latest novel, Hey Nostradamus! What I was hoping to find in this novel was an exploration of faith in the face of suffering. Ever since my baby brother had a brain tumor […]

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Time to take books back to the library, so its time to type a quick review of Sherman Alexie’s short story collection Ten Little Indians. What drew me to this book was the review in the

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