#158- Tolkien's The Silmarillion Part 2
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The Doom of Men
It's the doom of men or the gift of men that things end. I just want to read nothing but just opposing histories. All you can do, you can either create beauty and beauty has a form. But even ugliness is parasitic on beauty. So you can't get away from beauty no matter what you want to do. It's the absence of beauty. You can rebel against it. Seeing that. Wife came over the other day to me and she said, look at this. Look at this. Good Lord. I can't believe you've done this to me. Right. Like how do you write it if it's not some sort of divine inspiration? Well, that
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