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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Christmas Carol Carré

Filed under: General — Tags: Carré, Venues — m759 @ 11:00 pm

“Comments Off” in the above image may be
regarded as a stage direction.

Update of 11:20 PM ET —

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Chess Tenet

Filed under: General — Tags: Carré, Tenet — m759 @ 3:26 am

“Together with Tolkien and Lewis, this group forms
the Oxford School of children’s fantasy literature. . . .
They all celebrate the purported wisdom of old stories,
and follow the central tenet that Tolkien set out
for fairy-stories: ‘one thing must not be made fun of,
the magic itself. That must in the story be taken seriously,
neither laughed at nor explained away.’ “

— A leftist academic’s essay at aeon.co, “Empire of Fantasy,”
on St. Andrew’s Day, 2020.

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Monday, December 14, 2020

Espace Carré

Filed under: General — Tags: Carré, Murdoch and Kermode, Tenet, Venues — m759 @ 3:24 pm

"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers."

Obituary of a novelist in The Washington Post yesterday —

"He gave various explanations for how he chose his nom de plume —
le Carré means 'the square' in French —
before ultimately admitting he didn’t really know."

Related material for Dan Brown — Imperial Symbology and . . .

"Together with Tolkien and Lewis, this group forms
the Oxford School of children’s fantasy literature. . . .
They all celebrate the purported wisdom of old stories,
and follow the central tenet that Tolkien set out
for fairy-stories: ‘one thing must not be made fun of,
the magic itself. That must in the story be taken seriously,
neither laughed at nor explained away.’ "

— A leftist academic's essay at aeon.co, "Empire of Fantasy,"
on St. Andrew's Day, 2020.

A more respectable writer on literature and magic —