Reviews for Religion of a Newspaper Man

The average rating for Religion of a Newspaper Man based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-24 00:00:00 Lim Steven Loooong but pretty good book by that old Celtic master Rhys. Some of it has been superceded, but all of it was groundbreaking at its time. If you can ignore the urge to be monomythaic he makes some excellent reading. I am glad I’ve finally finished though. I can read 3 normal scholarly books in the time it took to read these 678 pages. I’ve also got 40 pages of notes and highlights… 3 quotes! (Technically more than just one quote in this one, but this proves his philological genius, and some of this hasn’t been properly explored even today) But just as the Welsh word (gwynt corresponding etymologically to Vintios the name of the Gaulish god associated with the wind, has lost all reference to the " divinity, and become simply a masculine noun meaning wind so Toirn the Irish equivalent of the older Toranis Gaulish Taranis has ceased to be a proper noun, and come down to modern times in the signification of 'a great noise or thunder … For the Welsh for Brittany is Llydaw a name which may have originally meant an abode of the dead, a light in which almost any land situated on the other shore would seem to have appeared to the Celts of antiquity. … The word gruagach is usually supposed to mean a long-haired creature, and it is commonly applied to a giant or any kind of uncanny fellow, for instance, in the stories in Campbell's Pojmlar... of the West Highlands ; but it is also employed of a female … Decline Danaan and you will have a nominative Dumnu and a genitive Dumnonos, implying a stem Dumnon : form from the latter an adjective Dumnonios, you will then have as its plural Dumnonii, the attested name of two peoples… (I never knew this!) I allude to the Fountain of Baranton in the forest of Broceliande, so famous in the romances. Thither the people of the country resorted in the early Middle Ages ; when they wanted rain, they would take up the tankard always at hand and throw some of the water from the spring on a slab near it. Eain would then fall in abundance, and one romancer ^ makes this the means of bringing on a terrific storm of thunder and lightning. (And the number 1 quoted part of this book) My nurse belonged to one of these families, and was supposed to possess its hereditary characteristics ; but in my boyhood few people of my acquaintance in Cardiganshire believed in this superstition : it was only a sort of joke. There is, however, a valley in the neighbourhood of Snowdon, whither I have been warned not to go to question the inhabitants on the subject of witch-hares.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-12 00:00:00 Elizabeth Sloane I thought that this was an excellent forray into thoughts of McLuhan of which most of us were unaware. I had no idea of the extent to which his Catholicism (or version of it) was influencing his interpretation of technology, especially the "acoustic" or electronic age. He was one of those rare intellectuals who understood that intelligence has little to do with conformity except as a stage in one's moral (specifically social) development. Since it is a collection of letters, it is not the best written work, but is still an interesting overview of his thought with these unexpected religious dimensions as well.