I pledged yesterday to write three posts in sequence that together will reveal the Foundation Crime of the Strike-Ellacott series and an epicycle structure to the last three books. I had the second post sketched before I wrote up an introduction to this effort yesterday so I was hopeful I could complete it relatively easily.

I have been sick and I relapsed. The second post remains a challenging ambition!

So, to keep my six month streak of posting every day alive, I took my cue from a Serious Reader who was looking for the talks I gave at the Eighth Day Symposium in 2011. The links in my original post about those talks were to Ancient Faith Radio but they apparently have been broken, i.e., the links no longer go to anything.

But the Web Archive, aka the ‘Wayback Machine,’ had saved it. I’ve been listening to it tonight in my malaise and I think it holds up. I discuss Soul Triptychs, Literary Alchemy, and Ring Composition, and, though it’s not quite the talk I’d give today, fourteen years later, it’s still challenging and fun.

So I post the Wayback Machine link here for you to enjoy! It’s another introduction to Rowling ‘Shed’ or Formalist artistry which will serve us well as we hunt for the Foundation Crime of the Strike-Ellacott series.

Enjoy!