The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ...but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. - H.P. Lovecraft
In particular she has been looking at the 2007 film Beowulf starring Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie and Port Talbot-born Sir Anthony Hopkins. And she has also traveled to Indiana University’s Library in the USA to study the 1970s DC Comics series Beowulf the Dragon Slayer.

WalesOnline - News - Wales News - Welsh academic researches Beowulf’s impact in the modern world

  1. Dr Catherine Clarke has willingly read DC’s Beowulf comic. Counting me and Dr. K, that makes three of us.
  2. No word on whether she watched Christopher Lambert fight the Predator…er, Grendel.
  3. Indiana University has DC’s Beowulf in their stacks.

I’m putting this up because if you told me while I was reading the Hephaestus Plague, that somebody would make a movie out of it, I wouldn’t have believed you. And since it was made in 1975, someone missed the opportunity.

I liked the part with Batman, but only because the Cowboy showed up and was like ‘Don’t eat that Kit-Kat bar, it’s made of college!

M83 - We Own the Sky (via mothlightcreative)

If I was going to kill Zeus the Sky-Father, I probably would lay off the E and dance-fighting.

(It doesn’t make Persephone any less hot, though.)

Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.
Yes, omnisexual… he has enjoys having sex with non-human species as well.

The War on Science Fiction and Marvin Minsky

I think Captain Kirk would like to have words with you. Also, your English teacher.

As in: “eventually, one man might be able to declare war on the world and win.

chaos reigns (via retrotechniker)

My fever must have gone down, this seems legit.