http://www.blackgate.com/2009/05/29/in-praise-of-escape/ Adventures in Fantasy Literature Thu, 17 May 2012 04:09:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.blackgate.com/2009/05/29/in-praise-of-escape/comment-page-1/#comment-929 A Look at Darkon — BillWardWriter.com Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:30:23 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=2330#comment-929 [...] goes beyond any sort of ‘brotherhood of genre geeks,’ to touch further upon the equivalence of escapism that I brought up last week: But every pursuit has its pitfalls, and for the majority of the [...] [...] goes beyond any sort of ‘brotherhood of genre geeks,’ to touch further upon the equivalence of escapism that I brought up last week: But every pursuit has its pitfalls, and for the majority of the [...]

]]> http://www.blackgate.com/2009/05/29/in-praise-of-escape/comment-page-1/#comment-927 Black Gate » Blog Archive » Darkon Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:52:49 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=2330#comment-927 [...] a follow-up to last week’s post on Escapism, I give you Darkon (2006), a low-budget documentary  by Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer that raises [...] [...] a follow-up to last week’s post on Escapism, I give you Darkon (2006), a low-budget documentary  by Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer that raises [...]

]]> http://www.blackgate.com/2009/05/29/in-praise-of-escape/comment-page-1/#comment-915 John R. Fultz Sat, 30 May 2009 04:25:46 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=2330#comment-915 There's a story about Tolkien: When someone asked him "Why would you want to escape reality into a fantasy world? He replied: "Why would you NOT want to?" Nice post. There’s a story about Tolkien: When someone asked him “Why would you want to escape reality into a fantasy world? He replied: “Why would you NOT want to?”
Nice post.

]]> http://www.blackgate.com/2009/05/29/in-praise-of-escape/comment-page-1/#comment-914 On Escapism — BillWardWriter.com Fri, 29 May 2009 20:49:40 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=2330#comment-914 [...] at Back Gate this week I have a post entitled ‘In Praise of Escape,’ all about, you guessed it, escapism. How the pejorative connotation attached to the term is [...] [...] at Back Gate this week I have a post entitled ‘In Praise of Escape,’ all about, you guessed it, escapism. How the pejorative connotation attached to the term is [...]

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