Fantasy appeals to us as we chafe against machine-imposed reality, including machine-imposed time.
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Tag Archives: Lewis Carroll
Using Fantasy to Take Back Time
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alice in Wonderland, fantasy literature, machines, nonsense, technology, Time Comments closed
Portal Fantasies – Nadal Loses, Italy Wins
Judging by the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision and the defeats of Rafael Nadal and the German soccer team, the world passed through a strange portal this past Thursday.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 1Q84, Alices through the Looking-Glass, English Soccer, German Soccer, Haruki Murakami, Importance of Being Earnest, Italian Soccer, Jud, Oscar Wilde, Rafael Nadal, Roger Fedderer, Sports Comments closed
Fantasy to the Rescue in Hard Times
Byatt’s book “The Children’s Hour” demonstrates many of the uses of fantasy.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged A. S. Byatt, Alices through the Looking-Glass, Children's Book, fantasy, trauma, World War I Comments closed
Lit Explains Romney’s Off-Putting Laugh
Lewis Carroll, Kundera, and Dostoevsky help us understand why Mitt Romney’s laugh makes us nervous.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alice in Wonderland, Encounter, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Idiot, Laughter, Milan Kundera, Mitt Romney, politics Comments closed