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		<title>Lars and the Real Girl</title>
		<link>http://sensawunda.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/lars-and-the-real-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to see a movie with Christian values that doesn&#8217;t preach or give you a sappy, saccharine Moral of the Story, ignore the two-line synopsis and try Lars and the Real Girl.
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		<title>The Journey of Anne Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the interviews with Anne Rice I&#8217;ve heard since her &#8220;Christ the Lord&#8221; series hit bookstores, Dick Staub&#8217;s is the best.
Her return to faith is truly miraculous. In addition, they discuss the history &#38; scholarship that inspired her, her surprise at the chord her new novels have struck, the spiritual symbolism in her vampire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sensawunda.wordpress.com&blog=28441&post=89&subd=sensawunda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagination and Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excellent post on the place of imagination in Christian life, our need for Story:
Hayhow&#8217;s Review.
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		<title>The Dark Knight and the dark side of sensawunda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first blush, it might seem Batman: The Dark Knight would be a candidate for the &#8220;Not Sensawunda&#8221; category. It&#8217;s not about the wonder of being Batman, not even in the obligatory Bat-gadget scenes with Morgan Freeman channeling &#8220;Q&#8221;. In many ways it has the feel of act two of a trilogy, when everything goes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sensawunda.wordpress.com&blog=28441&post=75&subd=sensawunda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the wonder in magic realism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished the seminal work of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude  by Gabriel García Márquez (tr. Gregory Rabassa). Of course it&#8217;s a brilliant novel, and I&#8217;m not just saying that because it&#8217;s made all the lists of the top 100 novels of the 20th century and Márquez has a Nobel Prize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sensawunda.wordpress.com&blog=28441&post=68&subd=sensawunda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surprised by Wonder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I haven&#8217;t been reading much fiction lately, or watching many movies or TV shows. But I keep finding, in the most surprising places, passages in my non-fiction reading that pertain to sense of wonder.
The title of this post might make you think I&#8217;m going to write about C.S. Lewis. Actually, the author in question is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sensawunda.wordpress.com&blog=28441&post=67&subd=sensawunda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What fiction is for</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quote from an unexpected source: How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler &#38; Charles Van Doren. [now my secret's out, LOL!] This book is mostly about reading expository books analytically; by &#8220;imaginative literature&#8221; they mean anything that isn&#8217;t expository.
We owe much to the expository literature—the philosophy, science, mathematics—that has shaped the real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sensawunda.wordpress.com&blog=28441&post=66&subd=sensawunda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hedgehog in the Fog&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sensawunda.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/hedgehog-in-the-fog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a link to an enchanting Russian animated short film called &#8220;Hedgehog in the Fog.&#8221;
The Hedgehog discovers the sublime wonder of the world by seeing it from an altered perspective (provided by the fog). Sometimes frightening, sometimes beautiful&#8230; transformed, and transformative.
I have heard one opinion that found the hedgehog character &#8220;dull.&#8221; Thinking about this, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sensawunda.wordpress.com&blog=28441&post=65&subd=sensawunda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Smartest Book Meme in Town</title>
		<link>http://sensawunda.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/the-smartest-book-meme-in-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As created by Eva, who will enter you in a drawing if you leave a comment on her post, and as tagged by superfastreader.
Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews?
The Bell Jar or anything else by Sylvia Plath. For one thing, I have a tendency to mistrust any author who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sensawunda.wordpress.com&blog=28441&post=64&subd=sensawunda&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hold onto wonder</title>
		<link>http://sensawunda.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/hold-onto-wonder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sensawunda quote of the week comes from Rachel Carson.
If I had influence with the Good Fairy, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
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