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Thursday, December 15, 2005

"The Best Introduction to the Mountains" is a thoughtful essay, with ramifications both political and philisophical, on J. R. R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, by Gene Wolfe, author of The Book of the New Sun novels, and There Are Doors (which last is not coincidentally the latest book I've read), among other things.

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