CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@OctaviaConAmore Oh gosh, I would 100% sit & listen to that!!!!

“What topic could you give an impromptu 30 minute lecture on?”

Well, today I was explaining sonata form using the Hobbit “there and back again” (sonata form literally has a home key), and got from there to talking about how Tolkien’s long descriptions of the natural world is inherently tied to the anti-industrialist themes throughout LotR

During a violin lesson. I think we were in the middle of scales?

@cwicseolfor You’re so right about the insulation part!!! Also why white women leftists often don’t understand how much we get in the way of progress because we literally have never even seen or dealt with the problems!!

Oh hey look, John Donne was right about one thing. No man (or, you know, person!) is an island.

If you think reading can be apolitical, you also profoundly misunderstand what politics is: the way we decide as a group how we live with each other. How we live with each other in the polis, i. e. the city/community

ANY aspect of life that affects or creates our lived space together IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL

Politics is messy because humans are messy. And your escapist literature isn’t going to allow you to nope your way out of being part of humanity

Ok, I know my community on here isn’t really who needs to hear this, but I want to say it out loud anyway

When Tolkien made his famous comment defending “escapist” literature, he framed it politically!!! He literally framed it as a prisoner of war doing what he needed to do to get out!!

If you want to claim that loving escapist literature is your excuse to *never* engage in the political aspect of literature, you are profoundly misunderstanding the power of stories and the written word