A Retraction.

Yeah, I should totally have waited until my thoughts were clearer before posting yesterday. (Not to mention I left out several great books, not one of which are coming to mind now, of course.)

The nonsense following the massive paragraph on The Lord of the Rings should probably be ignored: it’s indefensible in both style and logic, and I don’t even agree with most of it twenty-four hours later. (By the way, why the hell do I always want to structure my sentences like that? I need to take remedial Hemingway or something.)

That’s probably one of the best arguments for my avoiding fantasy: it makes my writing voice wonky, and screws up my aesthetic sense something fierce. It’s back to the Wodehouse for me.