Actually, I find the phantastical rather unproblematic. I have no issues at all with the phantastical moments in Terry Pratchett, and the same goes for Harry Potter, or Naruto. I have no problems with suspending disbelief when it comes to dragons or orks. (I am too lazy to pick up "on fairytales" by Tolkien at the moment...) What I resent is the regressive political dreams. (There aren't any to be found in Terry Pratchett, or, well, not many, which is why I don't mind the phantastical in his stories at all.)
The faulty logic of the sentence is the following: "We should not complain about Lord of the Rings, because then we would have to complain about the King Arthur Myth too" - but what if this latter assumption was wrong?
no subject
Date: 20 Feb 2011 07:09 pm (UTC)The faulty logic of the sentence is the following: "We should not complain about Lord of the Rings, because then we would have to complain about the King Arthur Myth too" - but what if this latter assumption was wrong?