And, because good essays are hard to find
Those of you unfamiliar with the thoughtful and elegant pen of
Ad effigiem
The strawman fallacy in Utopian fiction
Of all the habitual fallacies and prejudices that have poisoned the wells of reason in our time, none, perhaps, has been so destructive as what Owen Barfield christened ‘chronological snobbery’.
Moorcock, Saruman, and the Dragon’s Tail
A second look at ‘Wit and Humour in Fantasy’
I have before me an essay of Moorcock’s, ostensibly an argument for the natural and necessary alliance between humour and fantasy. But he makes his argument very badly, because his real purpose is to attack his arch-enemy, Tolkien.
The Problem of Being Susan
Religious experience and the will to disbelieve
In comments on R.J. Anderson’s essay ‘The Problem of Susan’, several people expressed their frank disbelief that Susan Pevensie could ever forget her time in Narnia to the point of thinking it had all been a silly childhood game. Actually this is the most grimly plausible of the suppositions behind Lewis’s treatment of Susan in The Last Battle.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
