NP? �"the formerly colonised coming back to haunt us"

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, thanks, just got to this one, very good ...

--- thomas kyhn rovsing hjørnet <tkrh at worldonline.dk>
wrote:
> 
> Taking an author¹s word for what his literary
> products Œare about¹ doesn¹t seem such a good idea.
> Basically, that would  be assuming that a writer is
> in complete control of what he writes. And that he
> is telling the truth. Etc. Which is not to defend
> the idea that The Lord of the Rings is really about
> the World War. However, critique of its completely
> clear-cut opposition between good (quiet ‹ petit
> bourgeois ‹ life in the small ‹ English style ‹
> village ) and bad (black, ugly, smelly, primitive,
> etc.) is, in my opinion, welcome.

My quick answer here is, there is indeed a political
unconscious to TLOTR.  And pretty much everything else
ever written.  Whew ...

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