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5 Quick Things #328 ✍️

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By Tsh Oxenreider, Annelise Roberts, Chris Yokel, Elise Boratenski
| The Commonplace Newsletter by Tsh Oxenreider
Hey there, I don’t know where you’re at while you’re reading this (mentally and emotionally, I mean), but if you’re a metaphysical neighbor of mine, you’re spent.
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The Myths of Oppenheimer - The Rabbit Room

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By Chris Yokel
| The Rabbit Room
As an English professor who is particularly interested in mythology and the role that stories play in helping us making meaning of our lives, I’m pretty attuned to noticing when such references show up and how they are utilized, whether in films or books. Like many people, this past weekend I saw Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated film on the “father of the atomic bomb”, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who headed The Manhattan Project during World War II.
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The Rabbit Room | Do Not Despair

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By Chris Yokel
| The Rabbit Room
I’m guessing that many of you may feel like I do a lot these days when you look at the news—both angry yet impotent to do much of anything significant about the world’s ills. It’s one of the problems of our age, that our sphere of knowledge dwarfs our sphere of impact. In these moments I often find myself “doomscrolling”, thumbing through one bad thing after another on the Internet until I’m in a bad mood. On one such day recently I just had to ditch my phone and go for a walk in the woods.
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The Violent Grace of The Green Knight

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By Chris Yokel
| The Rabbit Room
Author’s note: This essay contains spoilers for the 14th century British poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the 2021 film The Green Knight. If I spoil the poem for you, well, your bad, you’ve had six centuries to catch up. However, spoiling the film for you would be more understandable, so perhaps steer clear until you’ve seen it. What do a 14th century British epic poem of Arthurian myth and a 20th century Southern gothic novelist from Georgia have in common? More than you might think.
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