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I subscribe to this RSS feed, which is automatically built out of the day’s top 10 best performing links that have not been on the HN Daily before. There’s a strong focus here on technical articles, but also quite a bit of tech-focused news and some product demos. Hacker News is a Reddit-like site hosted by Y Combinator. ![]() They’re always entertaining, and often completely unexpected. Sometimes these are accompanied by videos and photos as well. Daily (at least), Greg Ross writes up a short article on an unusual fact, piece of history, or story. Futility Closetįutility Closet is one of my all-time favorites. I’m gonna skip my incredibly-long webcomics list, and show off some of the more interesting informational and long-form stuff I like to read. 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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know! As always, I really only get information about the U.S. When is this story available in other countries? The preview will be available for free, online, later in the summer. The preview is included here first as an extra treat to thank you guys who bought The Staff of Serapis. Why do I have to buy the e-single of The Staff of Serapis to read the Blood of Olympus preview? It would end up costing the same as the Mark of Athena paperback anyway, so you might as well get the whole bundle if you want it in print! Also, printing and shipping a sixty-page story by itself would be prohibitively expensive. Why can’t you release The Staff of Serapis as a single print book, rather than bundling it with Mark of Athena?īecause the story was written specifically to promote the paperback release of Mark of Athena. The e-format will also include the first sneak peek of The Blood of Olympus, and if you buy the version with the audio bundled in, you will get to hear me narrating. The story will be available in e-formats, with the cover above, on May 20. The Staff of Serapis, a sixty-page crossover story featuring Annabeth Chase and Sadie Kane, is available starting Tuesday, April 8, in the back of the newly released US paperback edition of The Mark of Athena! ![]() ![]() ![]() However, according to Ivan the Inquisitor has not had a change of heart or rediscovered his faith, "The kiss glows in his heart, but the old man adheres to his ideas" (Dostoevsky 36). We see this when the Inquisitor criticizes Christ for saying man cannot live on bread alone, claiming instead "Feed men, and then ask of them virtue" (Dostoevsky 26)! At the end of the story, Christ is freed by the Inquisitor after Christ kisses him on the lips. It seems that redemption, in Dostoevsky's view, is not possible for the masses of men, primarily because most men cannot develop their virtue in a world where there is mass poverty, hunger, and sin. As the Inquisitor maintains, "Only one who can appease their conscience can take their freedom" (Dostoevsky 27). ![]() The Inquisitor views choice as having too much freedom and knowledge, forcing human beings to struggle in vain with their conscience. This is a freedom that most human beings cannot handle, according to the Inquisitor, so they are doomed to sin and suffer. He tells Christ he has prevented human beings from being able to achieve redemption because he has given them the option of choice. In Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor, we see that the Inquisitor is an atheist who prosecutes Christ. ![]() |