pinkbee
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October 2026
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āOnly the right name gives beings and things their reality,ā she said. āA wrong name makes everything unreal.ā
This novel is truly a masterpiece. My mother read it to me when I was little, and I picked it up again twenty years later. And oh my, what a journey it has been. I thought I was going to read a great classic middle-grade fantasy, maybe with dragons and some nice morals at the endā¦ and I ended up with a metaphysical treatise seasoned with existential dread in my hands. Iām not mad about it: I loved it.
It makes you think about the power that wishes and dreams have over humanity, how they can bring joy or twist into insanity. And you really have to pay attention to what youāre wishing for, especially if itās about changing yourself. I donāt think it can be fully appreciated by reading it superficially or skimming through it, or by expecting it to be like the movie.
I recommend getting a physical copy to enjoy the text in green and red, which is truly part of the reading experiencešā¤ļø
āLewis responded to āTollersā (as he began to call Tolkien), āthat it is ages since I have had an evening of such delight.ā Later he wrote a fourteen-page analysis of the work for Tolkienās revisions!ā
This hit hard. It makes me think about what became of writing in the last couple of years; itās not unusual nowadays to see ads for AI āwriting tools and companionsā, and it says so much about the loneliness weāre facing as a society.
Iāve heard people say, āBut I donāt know anyone, and I donāt have much money to pay a professional, so I can only use AI to edit/write/draw/whatever.ā
But Tolkien and Lewis didnāt have AI. They had each otherās friendship, and nurtured their relationship as human beings. Making real connections has become so hard that, to some people, a machine seems more reliable.
New life goal for every writer out there: to find a friend whoād write a fourteen-page analysis of your novel/script/poem/grocery list for you. Yes, making friends is hard, but itās good for anyoneās life. AI slop is not.
pinkbee commented...
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I'm really curious to know what important epic poems different countries in the world have. I'd say, especially after all the different movie adaptations through the years, almost everybody knows about the Iliad and the Odyssey. I've studied them since I was 11 because in Italy they are in all middle schools and high schools programs. And I always found them really interesting. In fact, I'd like to try to read them completely (not just the chapters we studied in school).
I'll probably also read the Aeneid, another text I studied a lot in school since it's the Italian (Roman actually, but I'd still consider it Italian since that's where the writer was geographically located) epic poem (maybe there are other older ones, but I've never been taught about them, so I don't really know if they exist or if they've even been found).
And I'm curious to know about other epic poems around the world. Doubt I'll ever be able to read them all, but I surely will try to read at least some.
