{"id":1658,"date":"2011-04-22T00:12:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T00:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brietv.com\/blog\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2011-04-22T00:12:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T00:12:46","slug":"fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brietv.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/22\/fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

um hi<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Fantasy in literature is so stultifying.<\/span><\/h3>\n

This brings to mind Ayn Rand.<\/span><\/h3>\n

I don’t really know what planet she was writing about.<\/span><\/h3>\n

If she had lived to see the future, she would have been astounded by all the big rip-offs selling us out to special interests!<\/span><\/h3>\n

For such a brilliant woman, she seemed rather naive.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Unaware that if you played by the rules, and the possibility existed that you might actually win the game, then more likely than not, your enemies would change the rules, making you a loser.<\/span><\/h3>\n

So “Atlas Shrugged” –big deal.<\/span><\/h3>\n

If you decide to quit, there are many others desiring to replace you, commensurate with you success. <\/span>Your successor may not be as talented as you were, but the system doesn\u2019t really care! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out bub.<\/span><\/h3>\n

I read an account of Ayn Rand having visited an all boy’s prep school, wearing a short skirt,<\/span><\/h3>\n

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thereby causing a sensation among those present. She was no doubt charismatic. As a person she sounds way more interesting than her writing ever could be.<\/span><\/h3>\n

At a young age I read the monumental “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and really can’t waste any more time on fantasy.<\/span><\/h3>\n

When unemployed during the eighties, I read Thomas Pynchon\u2019s epic tome “Gravity’s Rainbow,” which verges on fantasy. We really don’t need any more writers trying to emulate Pynchon!<\/span><\/h3>\n

Same with the Harry Potter books. The author herself is way more interesting than a bunch of rubbish, as the British would say, about witches and such. Truly amazing how she came from nowhere to become such a success.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Modern society has a tendency to chew up people like sticks of gum before spitting them out, producing an abundance of\u00a0 washed-up-has-beens. <\/span><\/h3>\n


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um hi Fantasy in literature is so stultifying. This brings to mind Ayn Rand. I don’t really know what planet she was writing about. If she had lived to see the future, she would have been astounded by all the big rip-offs selling us out to special interests! For such a brilliant woman, she seemed … Continue reading “fantasy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,32,118,128,179,210,228,251,271,306,324,354,358,374,410,419,431,453,460,464,479,526],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ayn-rand","tag-ballarina","tag-cosplay","tag-dana-dearmound","tag-garter-belt","tag-hillary-summer","tag-janet-mason","tag-judy-garland","tag-kidder","tag-lois-lane","tag-margot-kidder","tag-molly-ringwald","tag-mrnuttz","tag-nurse","tag-poodle-skirt","tag-rebecca-starr","tag-saddle-shoes","tag-shemale","tag-sissy","tag-soccer-mom","tag-syd-blakovich","tag-velma-dinkley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brietv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brietv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brietv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brietv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brietv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brietv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brietv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brietv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brietv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}