Numinous Slap

Numinous Response

Lamorna Ash | Amulet | 3rd March 2025

The 12C story of doomed lovers Héloïse and Abelard is a sacred text. Their correspondence, after they had been separated and had entered holy orders, apart, is as stirring as it was centuries ago. A medieval academic feared its resonance would fade with passing years, but the "intense passion and suffering" are still fresh. "Sacred texts are this: a glimpse of love’s eternality" (2,100 words)

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The World Of Professional Slap Fighting

Ander Monson | Esquire | 23rd May 2024

Dispatch from a fast-growing new combat sport. "Phillips’s eyes are closed, all 255 pounds of him anticipating the blow, hoping to endure it so he can return fire. He can’t move to evade the slap. That’s not allowed. Flinching is a foul — spiritually, the greatest foul in slap fighting — and the penalty is that your opponent gets an extra chance to smash you in the face. So you just have to take the blow" (6,500 words)