I will argue that appeals to intellect are entirely appeals to feeling. It's a culturally distinguished feeling, it's a culturally valourized feeling, but it's a feeling.
I don't think Tolkien's going to make it; I don't think much will, just like we retain effectively no Middle English works. Even what we've got is too difficult to understand. If we make it through the time of angry weather I think the cultural change is going to make elegiac Edwardian world views specialist-only.
Not even slightly inclined to argue about the "denounced as too literary" part.
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Date: 2019-09-14 08:51 pm (UTC)I don't think Tolkien's going to make it; I don't think much will, just like we retain effectively no Middle English works. Even what we've got is too difficult to understand. If we make it through the time of angry weather I think the cultural change is going to make elegiac Edwardian world views specialist-only.
Not even slightly inclined to argue about the "denounced as too literary" part.