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Sword Dance 25: Luck Is The Residue Of Design

August 24, 2015

Academic deans are a strange and unpredictable species. One thing they can be relied upon to do is question the need …

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Sword Dance 17: Quips and Cranks and Wanton Wiles

June 29, 2015

In the faction fight raging within the Department of English at Parnell State University, Jonathan Sebelius has more allies than he …

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Sword Dance 10: Wasting the Earth, Each Other To Destroy

May 11, 2015

Jonathan Sebelius sees the faction fight within his department as a battle between Good and Evil, the outcome of which …

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Sword Dance 8: A Perpetual Feast of Nectar’d Spirits

April 27, 2015

In real life, reading a papyrus involves a great deal of meticulous work. Yet it is every bit as exciting as you might imagine: …

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Sword Dance 4: But Now My Task Is Smoothly Done

March 30, 2015

In which we are introduced to the first of Joseph Swetnam’s Seven Laws of Fencing, which serve Sebelius as a …

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Sword Dance 2: A Double Share of Wisdom

March 16, 2015

The chapter titles in Sword Dance are taken from the poetry of John Milton. I hope he’s not spinning in …

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Sword Dance 1: Sweet is the Breath of Morn

March 9, 2015

There is a long and hallowed tradition of novels set in universities. My favorites are by David Lodge, whose witty, intricate …

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