All right, this is *definitely* off topic, but a little talking about
this here can't really hurt, I guess (and, as long as procmail can be
used to enforce good manners on students, we can say, with a good
stretch of the imagination, that is not so off topic...)
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 09:17:37 at 09:17:37AM -0500, Jefferis Peterson
(jefferis(_at_)petersonsales(_dot_)net) wrote:
Here's an excerpt from the article:
"The problem with a steady diet of this type of literature [fantasy lit. vs.
classical lit.] is that it does not teach a child to distinguish between his
own impulses and right and wrong.
While I agree with almost everything else in your message, I'm a bit
less comfortable with statements like the one above. In one of the
"Lord of the Rings" books one of the characters says, more or less,
how we can distinguish between good and evil in these times?" and the
other (Aragorn?) answers (IIRC) something like "Evil has always been evil and
honorable men will always recognize it easily"
Of course, this by itself may or may not mean anything, depending from
what you think of Tolkien and from your own values system, but saying
that a certain fiction or music genre is evil or meaningless by
definition maybe is not the best approach. What about "any literature
written/published just to sell something will be tailored to the
dumbest/mentally laziest customers, anything coming from hearth will
be written, and if it also sells good, all the better"?
Original quoting from someone with the LOTR English edition is welcome.
(assuming, of course, that we want to continue here this interesting
discussion...)
Ciao,
Marco Fioretti
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