Tolkien's Akallabêth and the Straight Road
DEATH // SENTENCE
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The World Is Round
"The insistence on seeing it only is round, holds some sort of clinical distance from reality," he writes. "What he's advocating for here is an acceptance of that soul, of death, of that sadness." The pursuit after a time which no longer exists should be a metaphorical pursuit, intellectual pursuit, says the author.
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