Brad Simkulet's Blog, page 5
January 15, 2018
"Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagious - you..."
“Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagious - you can’t ignore it, so don’t even try. The best you can do is consciously try to lance the boil. And there’s a lot to dislike - his cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his boys-own-adventure glorying in war, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos, his belief in absolute morality that blurs moral and political complexity. Tolkien’s clichés - elves ‘n’ dwarfs ‘n’ magic rings - have spread like viruses. He wrote that the function of fantasy was 'consolation’, thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.”
- China Mieville, found via Boing Boing (via dungeoncrawlers-blog-blog)
- China Mieville, found via Boing Boing (via dungeoncrawlers-blog-blog)
"It’s anecdotal, but I regularly see Frankenstein’s monster described as a warning against scientific..."
“It’s anecdotal, but I regularly see Frankenstein’s monster described as a warning against scientific hubris, an alarum about Tampering With Things That Should Be Left Alone™. This I think is quite wrong: I think it is a story about what happens when one fails the (still at the time of writing) radical enlightenment by failing to take social responsibility for one’s actions and interventions. If it’s a warning, it’s a warning about turning one’s back, out of cowardice, on what one creates, not about creating it in the first place.”
- China Mieville
(via liquidlightandrunningtrees)
- China Mieville
(via liquidlightandrunningtrees)
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punkcommie:
The Twilight Zone - Originial Series (1959 -...
The Twilight Zone - Originial Series (1959 - 1964)
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call “The Twilight Zone”.
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existingcharactersdiehorribly:
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existingcharactersdiehorribly:
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