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    1. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020

      And first, I'll also disclaim. I have plenty of books whose only justification is: I enjoyed it; it comforted me on a lonely winter night, or filled the indolence of a summer day. And if feminist, social media Beowulf does that for you, go for it. (2/)

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    2. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020

      This thought is deeply unoriginal, but I believe one of the basic purposes of literature is twofold: firstly drawing us out of ourselves, into an alien context & way of being, and that the Greatness of a story is, in part, how well it packages those alien assumptions (3/)

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    3. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020

      The distance can be small--a person of another social class in your country & time, say--or great. And to go into the mind & context of a long-dust Spear-Dane is very far. No one alive today, of any race or country, is as far from me as those guys who are literally my ancestors

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    4. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020

      But I said this purpose was twofold. If we wish to exercise sympathy and go out to meet these strangers, we have to temporarily detatch parts of ourselves. Writing a feminist Beowulf is bringing Beowulf to you; to go to Beowulf you have to detach yourself from feminism (6/)

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    5. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020

      And from other assumptions--you're at least aware of being a feminist. You, 21st Century Person, take for granted assumptions about violence and force, glory and treasure, at an even deeper level. (7/)

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    6. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020

      None of this invalidates the things you believe. I, for instance, much prefer to live in a world without a premodern Dane's assumptions about violence and might. But put it aside. You're a traveller here, not a missionary. (8/)

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    7. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020

      But then a strange thing happens, and we're finally getting to my "twofold". You strip yourself away--feminism is maya, equality is maya, the non-aggression principle is maya, you let all these things fall away to go and meet a stranger, very different from you. (9/)

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    8. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020

      You recognize things. Have you known Hector, who loved his family but walked out the door? Foolish, angry Lear, who forgot he loved. Hecuba, begging for news of her daughter. Useless, beautiful Genji. How strange are these strangers? (10/)

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    9. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020

      So you come back. You're a feminist, you believe in voting and civil liberties, equality before God, efficient markets and freedom of gender expression. I'm not here to argue with any of that, but I think it's good, profoundly good to step out of yourself (11/)

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    10. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020

      And come back again, haunted by ghosts, and a little more aware of your kinship with the living. Some things are maya, but some things endure. (12/)

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Aug 2020
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      "maya" ?

      8:21 AM - 28 Aug 2020
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        1. Kendric Tonn‏ @kendrictonn 28 Aug 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP

          Buddhist term for illusion or deception; to mix philosophical traditions, involved in the mistaking of Accidental qualities for Essential qualities.

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