Taum Santoski XVI

'Aphorisms Towards a Poetics of Fantasy'

16. Some might feel the study of myth, and especially the myth of Tolkien, is a path to the power and moral force of our ancestors who drew their life from belief and not knowledge. Although myth is one of the highest forms of abstract and imaginative thought, mathematics is higher, but it lacks the emotions.

--Taum Santoski, circa 1984