Thank you for pointing out the Gnostic aspect of His Dark Materials, it makes it all make a whole lot more sense now. Not that I still don't disagree with everything Philip Pullman has ever said on any subject, but that's neither here nor there.
I do still think the fantasy-is-bad-for-you people are also more likely to be the sort of people who prefer the literal to the metaphoric in general. I know, I know, you and my brother are obvious exceptions, but people with Aspergers throw the results.
I follow this community of children's fantasy writers here, [Bad username or site: enchanted inkpot @ livejournal.com], and a week or so ago they asked for discussion questions we'd like them to answer. I thought a post on "What's the purpose of fantasy?" would be really interesting, to get many different views on the subject (although, granted, all coming from fantasy writers, so we'd obviously not have any ANTI-fantasy people speaking there... but still). I'm interested to see if they ever do decide to cover that topic.
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Date: 2010-03-16 05:53 pm (UTC)I do still think the fantasy-is-bad-for-you people are also more likely to be the sort of people who prefer the literal to the metaphoric in general. I know, I know, you and my brother are obvious exceptions, but people with Aspergers throw the results.
I follow this community of children's fantasy writers here, [Bad username or site: enchanted inkpot @ livejournal.com], and a week or so ago they asked for discussion questions we'd like them to answer. I thought a post on "What's the purpose of fantasy?" would be really interesting, to get many different views on the subject (although, granted, all coming from fantasy writers, so we'd obviously not have any ANTI-fantasy people speaking there... but still). I'm interested to see if they ever do decide to cover that topic.