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7/23/2025, 10:35:56 PM
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> 'Fairy stories are for kids. I live in the real world.' [...]
> Such a rejection of the entire art of fiction is related to several American characteristics: our Puritanism, our work ethic, our profit-mindedness, and even our sexual mores.
> To read War and Peace or The Lord of the Rings plainly is not 'work' - you do it for pleasure. And if it cannot be justified as 'educational' or 'self improvement', then, in the Puritan value system, it can only be self-indulgence or escapism. For pleasure is not a value, to the Puritan; on the contrary, it is a sin.
In short, because I'm not soulless.
> 'Fairy stories are for kids. I live in the real world.' [...]
> Such a rejection of the entire art of fiction is related to several American characteristics: our Puritanism, our work ethic, our profit-mindedness, and even our sexual mores.
> To read War and Peace or The Lord of the Rings plainly is not 'work' - you do it for pleasure. And if it cannot be justified as 'educational' or 'self improvement', then, in the Puritan value system, it can only be self-indulgence or escapism. For pleasure is not a value, to the Puritan; on the contrary, it is a sin.
In short, because I'm not soulless.
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