a little fervor for your Monday morning
Sep. 26th, 2005 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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ursulav's new crusade. (Not, you know, that it's the bad sort of crusade where you sack Constantinople and die horribly and that sort of thing. It's more an interior crusade of trying to remember what fantasy can do instead of what we're accustomed to it doing. Like when they tell you to sack Constantinople, saying, "Well, actually, I think I'd rather go hang out on Crete and learn to talk to the minotaurs.") Because, dammit, she's right.
ursulav's new crusade. (Not, you know, that it's the bad sort of crusade where you sack Constantinople and die horribly and that sort of thing. It's more an interior crusade of trying to remember what fantasy can do instead of what we're accustomed to it doing. Like when they tell you to sack Constantinople, saying, "Well, actually, I think I'd rather go hang out on Crete and learn to talk to the minotaurs.") Because, dammit, she's right.
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Date: 2005-09-26 05:16 pm (UTC)We, on other hand, are obsessed with pseudo-realism. "Oh look at this historical fantasy! It has un-period attitudes toward women and they said the candles were wax, when everyone knows the candles at that time period were made of fat."
Where is the light fantastic? Where are the stories of distant planets and improbable feats? They are out there, I know it :)
This craving for pseudo-realism sometimes makes me feel like I am entering an ass-kicking contest with my feet tied together.
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Date: 2005-09-26 05:32 pm (UTC)Well, to an extent, but where's the fun in doing things the easy way ?
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Date: 2005-09-26 10:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-27 02:07 pm (UTC)