http://www.cenacle.com.au/ Cenacle en Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:08:00 GMT Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:08:00 GMT info@cenacle.com.au info@cenacle.com.au http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-dark-knight-standing-tall/ For the first hour or so into the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, I wasn't buying it. I hadn't seen Batman Begins, so I didn't know how Christopher Nolan's... http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-dark-knight-standing-tall/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-dark-knight-standing-tall/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:08:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/get-smart-neither-smart-nor-funny/ Get Smart is a movie adapted from 60's television series of the same name. Not having seen the television series, I cannot vouch if the movie is faithful to its... http://www.cenacle.com.au/get-smart-neither-smart-nor-funny/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/get-smart-neither-smart-nor-funny/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:04:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-horse-the-wheel-and-language-by-david-anthony/ This is an impressive book of scholarship. A book of vast erudition written in accesible, lucid prose that even a lay person with no prior knowledge of lingusitics or arachaeology... http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-horse-the-wheel-and-language-by-david-anthony/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-horse-the-wheel-and-language-by-david-anthony/ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:40:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-magicians-nephew/ OK, I succumbed to it. After resisting it for a while, I began reading the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis. I saw the first movie and didn't like it much... http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-magicians-nephew/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-magicians-nephew/ Fri, 30 May 2008 05:40:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-children-by-edith-wharton/ Picture Courtesy: Famous Poets and Poems Edith Wharton is usually compared with Henry James and usually judged to be his inferior. I find her to be a much greater artist... http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-children-by-edith-wharton/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-children-by-edith-wharton/ Tue, 06 May 2008 06:50:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-dragon-waiting-by-john-m-ford/ If you are a science fiction fan, you must know about Gollancz masterworks series whose titles include some of the best science fiction and fantasy books ever written. I don't... http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-dragon-waiting-by-john-m-ford/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-dragon-waiting-by-john-m-ford/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:33:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/national-treasure-book-of-secrets/ When National Treasure was released, it was dismissed by the brotherhood for many reasons but chiefly, as the New York Times put it , for the "frisson of patriotism" that... http://www.cenacle.com.au/national-treasure-book-of-secrets/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/national-treasure-book-of-secrets/ Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:52:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-officers-who-are-gentlemen/ It is interesting that those who comprise a civilization can't even bother to show up, those who fight for it also strive to know what they fight for. The Weekly... http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-officers-who-are-gentlemen/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/the-officers-who-are-gentlemen/ Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:53:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/in-the-land-of-women-nice-stroll/ I caught this movie on a fluke and I expected I wouldn't think much of it. It is more or less similar to Elizabethtown, a movie I hated. In the... http://www.cenacle.com.au/in-the-land-of-women-nice-stroll/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/in-the-land-of-women-nice-stroll/ Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:30:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/al-gore-nobel-prize/ Al Bore has won the ultimate seal of global messianism, so what's in it for us? There is something marvellously ridiculous about Nobel Peace Prize what with Jimmy Carter, Yasser... http://www.cenacle.com.au/al-gore-nobel-prize/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/al-gore-nobel-prize/ Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:04:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/atlas-is-fifty/ It's 50 years since Atlas Shrugged was first published, one of the greatest books ever written in history. I had already read The Fountainhead and I was fourteen. The next... http://www.cenacle.com.au/atlas-is-fifty/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/atlas-is-fifty/ Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:50:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/robert-graves-greek-myths/ In a simple foreword, Robert Graves explains the system behind the Greek Mythology and then begins to examine the whole gamut of it in his The Greek Myths. His main... http://www.cenacle.com.au/robert-graves-greek-myths/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/robert-graves-greek-myths/ Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:28:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/soldier-of-the-mist-by-gene-wolfe/ . I was recently browsing through the sci-fi and fantasy section of Borders bookshop and stumbled across a beautifully designed copy of Gene Wolfe's Latro in the Mist. Gene Wolfe's... http://www.cenacle.com.au/soldier-of-the-mist-by-gene-wolfe/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/soldier-of-the-mist-by-gene-wolfe/ Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:39:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/enemies-of-capitalism-unite/ Bin Laden sounds the clarion call and the Brotherhood will follow. After all, he's the new global warming champion now! http://www.cenacle.com.au/enemies-of-capitalism-unite/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/enemies-of-capitalism-unite/ Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:07:00 GMT http://www.cenacle.com.au/ratatouille-a-very-ratty-dish/ Someone on the blogosphere has already pronounced that Remy the Rat is an animated avatar of Howard Roark. Is he? He does have some beautiful Rand-like aphorisms in the movie... http://www.cenacle.com.au/ratatouille-a-very-ratty-dish/#comments http://www.cenacle.com.au/ratatouille-a-very-ratty-dish/ Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:49:00 GMT