Making it real. - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lush · 06-07-2003, 04:27 PM

All reality can be subjective. Like this post. Your brain is telling you you're reading it, but how much do you trust your brain?

See what college does to you?!?!?!?!

*a short period of head rapidly connecting with surface of desk*

For someone, little hairy-footed people and Barrow-Wights ( [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) can be as real as the lager I am currently consuming. It's their right to think and feel this way. Errors in factual knowledge, however, must stand corrected: the similarities between the history of Tolkien's world and the myths and stories of our world was largely intentional, and is not, I believe, a mysterious signifier of the book's relation to (subjective or objective or whatever the %$#@) reality.

06-07-2003, 04:27 PM	#32
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	All reality can be subjective. Like this post. Your brain is telling you you're reading it, but how much do you trust your brain? See what college does to you?!?!?!?! a short period of head rapidly connecting with surface of desk For someone, little hairy-footed people and Barrow-Wights ( [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) can be as real as the lager I am currently consuming. It's their right to think and feel this way. Errors in factual knowledge, however, must stand corrected: the similarities between the history of Tolkien's world and the myths and stories of our world was largely intentional, and is not, I believe, a mysterious signifier of the book's relation to (subjective or objective or whatever the %$#@) reality. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~