Tolkien, Philology, and the Great Books, feat. Colin Chan Redemer | Episode X
New Humanists
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Is Language a Disease of Mythology?
Tolkin says language is a disease of mythology that imbedded in the words fere using. The closer you get to their origins, the more true this is not. Tolkin: We have language to describe some reality that we don't fully understand. And so ik. Because we just bring in the gods to kind of fill in the understanding. It's like students who are slowly getting drunk and certainly terrified of him. So that that canif explains why lang t well suffer from, from the great divorce between lang and lip,. You end up with stics, and it's just terrible. Am andh, tell us what you really think, john?
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