Truth and Fiction: Recent Episodes
Tim Vander Meulen
Short stories, poems, and essays from Tim Vander Meulen. Listen as the writer reads his work from truthandfiction.org. Thank you to Peter Vander Meulen of To the End of the Age (https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Nk0eePwJ8c6YdoxvyqhFx) for the title track.
What might theology have to do with art? In this episode, Tim Vander Meulen takes a survey through history of the artistic blights of popular culture and the great Christian men who stood in opposition.
Don Quixote, Faust, The Red and the Black, One Hundred Years of Solitude - Each of these presents characters who strive after worldly success, progress, or greatness in some way, and each come ultimately to failure. Why is that?
A small portion of a larger work of fantasy, this sample presents a portrait of one of its main characters as a young elfling growing up in the city of Dralindor.
Is the literary novel merely the sum of its individual parts? Tim Vander Meulen compares the novel to a movement in scientific analysis called reductionism.