5. Of the two sides of the mimetic/fantastika it is obviously fantastika that is better equipped to deal with politics. Modern fantastika (encompassing the gothic, horror, fantasy & science fiction) was born out of the need to register the world crisis of the French Revolution.
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16. I should add, of course, that these political readings are not the only way into s.f. & fantasy. Guy Davenport also wrote a beautiful essay about Tolkien as a teacher and also what he might have gleaned from a Kentucky friend:https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/23/archives/hobbits-in-kentucky.html …
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Fear is the mind-killer, in politics as in fiction.
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Lay off the drugs
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I've always read dune as being pretty reactionary. Is it because a lot of them love irony? Or did they miss the end where the revolutionary becomes a monster?
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Great thread. What does NR stand for?
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