Read this, today. What a terrific essay for the day. warontherocks.com/2018/10/from-t…
Included within it: “Tolkien in a letter to his son,
…depresses one with the sense of the everlasting mass and weight of human iniquity. …Old, dreary, endless repetitive unchanging incurable wickedness. And at the same time one knows that there is always good:
…depresses one with the sense of the everlasting mass and weight of human iniquity. …Old, dreary, endless repetitive unchanging incurable wickedness. And at the same time one knows that there is always good:
much more hidden, much less clearly discerned, seldom breaking out into recognizable, visible beauties of word or deed.” Add this to your must read books: amazon.com/Hobbit-Wardrob… @JosephLoconte makes the Great War manageable and Lewis and Tolkien much more understandable.
Within the essay by @IskanderRehman are some much needed pointers back to T.H. White “The Once and Future King.” If you can, listen to the audio book: amazon.com/The-Once-and-F… Between Rehman, @JosephLoconte and Neville Jason’s narration of White there’s a good grounding in WWI.
