Re: NP? "the formerly colonised coming back to haunt us"

[Otto]

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From: <CyrusGeo at netscape.net>
To: "thomas kyhn rovsing hjørnet )" <tkrh at worldonline.dk>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: NP?  "the formerly colonised coming back to haunt us"

>
> After all, the themes of his trilogy are universal and timeless, which is
> why (in my opinion) it had such a huge success in so many countries.
> It's not great literature, but it's quite catchy.
>
> Cyrus
>

I agree, but precisely that makes it inevitably racist like the overwhelming
part of our literature. And sexist too, remember there's even a female
monster to be killed in it.

"Universal and timeless themes" means logocentric meta-histories.

I think it's no coincidence that "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter" and
the second "Star Wars"-trilogy are successful movies at the same time when
people feel that we're all in trouble (Rowling and Lucas owe Tolkien a lot).
So "The Lord of the Rings" comes wave-like every twenty years or so to bring
back the lost childhood magic to a secularized world that fears the end
could be near.

But I still love LR and therefor have avoided to watch the movie(s) yet to
keep my own imagination.

Otto

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