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	<title>The Inspiratorium &#187; Inspiration</title>
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		<title>Discovering Dante&#8217;s Inferno</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Morton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s satisfying, isn&#8217;t it, when a book you read leads the way to others &#8212; where one opens your eyes to another topic, another author or another passion and off you go. I&#8217;m happy to report that the joy of discovery is still alive and well in the mind of this 50-plus reader. A few [...]


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		<title>Those Were The Days: Finding ourselves in the Middle Ages</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Morton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As is so often the case, a recent New Yorker cartoon took a medieval story to heart and added a 21st century twist to great comic effect. In this case, Rapunzel* has let down her hair, as the fairy tale goes, but she has inadvertently foiled the prince&#8217;s attempt to climb her prison tower using [...]


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		<title>A Fresh Take on the Middle Ages</title>
		<link>http://dmorton.ca/blog/2009/06/a-fresh-take-on-the-middle-ages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Morton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a terrific book about the Middle Ages, recently, by an American scholar with a great sweeping view of history about the powerful influence of medievalism on the contemporary world. I&#8217;ve always found the imaginative influence of the Middle Ages captivating: Chaucer&#8217;s pilgrims, the wild behaviours of feudal lords, the gritty view of [...]


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		<title>New Medieval Fiction: The Saint and the Fasting Girl</title>
		<link>http://dmorton.ca/blog/2009/06/new-medieval-fiction-the-saint-and-the-fasting-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Morton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could say my recent hiatus from blog posting had resulted in a prodigious output in pages for my novel. Alas, nothing of the sort. I had taken time off work a few months ago that was a great boon to the novel, but my return to teaching has overwhelmed me. Not only [...]


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		<title>When the sweet showers of April &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dmorton.ca/blog/2009/04/when-the-sweet-showers-of-april/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Morton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Whan that Aprill with its shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote, And bathed every veyne is swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge [...]


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		<title>Inspiring Places: Historyfish.net</title>
		<link>http://dmorton.ca/blog/2009/03/inspiring-places-historyfishnet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Morton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.&#8221; Or so said D.H. Lawrence. Which gives me some comfort, because I seem to be doing all I can to avoid my writing, this morning. I&#8217;ve spent the last couple of hours brewing a Shitake Beef Stew that will be consumed tonight. I&#8217;ve [...]


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		<title>Inspiring Places: Barry Unsworth&#8217;s Morality Play</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Morton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, a respite from the rain and the cold. The sun shines today in Vancouver, and it looks like spring, though the cherry blossoms are nowhere to be seen. The blossoms in my front yard are trying, but they are reluctant to invest themselves in this uneven weather. They look like little popcorn kernels ready [...]


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		<title>Writing: The Woes and Joys!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Morton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve taken some time off work to give some overdue focus to the novel. For the past week, I&#8217;ve been buried in writing, re-evaluating what I&#8217;ve done, doing new research and striking off in new and exciting directions. It&#8217;s been a productive five days, I would say, and I feel a renewed sense of passion [...]


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		<title>Inspiring Churches in Out-of-the-Way Places</title>
		<link>http://dmorton.ca/blog/2009/02/inspiring-churches-in-out-of-the-way-places/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Morton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not religious in the traditional sense, but I find endless inspiration in churches. If not for the glory of God, they are, at least, remarkable monuments to the human imagination &#8212; the human striving for artistic and architectural perfection, the capture of enormous space, the making of humankind in the image of a universal [...]


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		<title>Meditation, Inspiration and Flavia de Luce</title>
		<link>http://dmorton.ca/blog/2009/02/meditation-inspiration-and-flavia-de-luce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Morton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at a meditation workshop this past weekend, and found it a gold mine of inspiration for my writing. We did many hours of meditating, and as the noise/clutter of my mind died down into the great quiet, there were these large nuggets of ideas, sitting there. For the first time, I saw the [...]


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