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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Connection

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:27 am

Hurt’s dies natalis  (date of death, in the saints’ sense) was,
it now seems, 25  January 2017, not 27.

A connection, for fantasy fans, between the Philosopher’s Stone
(represented by the eightfold cube) and the Deathly Hallows
(represented by the usual Fano-plane figure) —

Images from a Log24 search for “Holocron.”

Chess Tenet

Filed under: General — Tags: , — 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.

Monday, December 14, 2020

Espace Carré

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — 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 —

Sunday, December 13, 2020

From the Cold

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:39 pm

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