2024-02-15
- Tolkien invented a common language to form the derivative languages.
- Myth is a discovery of truth.
- Tolkien felt like he was discovering the worlds, rather than creating them.
2024-02-14
- summary: writers influence each other over time. Meeting at pubs weekly to review writing.
- The theory of myth. The purpose of myth. Myth isn’t just story. It’s the discovery of a truth, a world that exists. I don’t know if Tolkien felt he created middle earth or he discovered it.
- Surprised by joy. → to read.
- Good friends don’t like everything their other friends do. But do what you feel anyway.
- Works received in America - perhaps this is like Jimmer getting some success in China.
2024-01-16 - critique. Harsh critique. Safe space. - Get together. Review. Discuss ideas. Listen. - Freely gathered friends. Not assigned. Friends. This was important. Innovation. - Creating worlds is hard. So Tolkien told many stories within the lotr world. Same with Lewis and
2024-01-10
- long walks. Lewis would walk with Tolkien. Tolkien then wrote about a super long walk in the hobit and lotr
- Language is the invention of objevts or ideas. Myth is the invention about truth. #post-ideas. Get this quote
2024-01-09 Notes:
- Tolkien build one language and derived it for two elvish languages.
- Saw beauty in languages
- Word at Oxford dictionary
- Places like the shire were inspired by his experiences
- Orcs represent machinists and wizards the old world.
- Fellowship: his friends died in the war. The Tea Club. TCBS.
- My grandma had the “double S” club.
“Well read” - makes you more of what you already are?
Lewis:
- Dymer: narrative poem
- Plato’s republic
- Dante.
- friendship is to disagree. To argue the other side just
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- anyhroposophical
- Evolution of consciousness
- creativity is grounded, not whimsical, thinking. Even scientists would agree as they become creative in the process of making new discoveries. If you need a creative mind to get to a new way of thinking (new theory that becomes truth), isn’t the creative thinking truth itself? (Or rather it’s not just whimsical).
- Imaginative thinking is crucial for both artistic creation and scientific discovery
Takeaway - their creative ideas took decades to form. Or went years without being published. - Surround yourself with people who challenge you - They created a new syllabus. - power is to those who hold it. Everyone else adapts.
Blog ideas: - don’t mistake challenge with truth. Someone who is on mistrurh side can convince you
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