How Fantasy Fuelled 60s Counterculture
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How Fantasy Fuelled 60s Counterculture
Ours is indeed an age of extremity. For we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. For one job that fantasy can do is to lift us out o
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If not for the encouragement of his friend C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien said he wouldn’t have finished writing The Lord of the Rings. Primarily because, Colin Duriez explains in Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship, “In the 1920s, there was no adult readership for fantasy, or literature in which the st... See more
If not for the encouragement of his friend C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien said he wouldn’t have finished writing The Lord of the Rings. Primarily because, Colin Duriez explains in Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship, “In the 1920s, there was no adult readership for fantasy, or literature in which the st... See more
