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08-26-2002, 01:07 PM
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
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Cromagnon versus Neanderthal? IndoEuropean versus all other racial groups? Technologically advanced societies versus non-tech? High population level versus low? Agrarian versus Hunter/Gatherer? The Woman versus the Serpent? Matriarchal versus Patriarchal societies? Or is there something else that some or all of the above oppositions touch on, but do not address directly? I don't know. What I'm certain of is that it's a can of worms and not nearly as tidy as - so far - summaries of Daniel Quinn's thought seem to indicate. I'm not sure this has been answered: Does Quinn have a hypothesis as to precisely what the "great wrong turn" was? Next question: What do you think Tolkien believed the "great wrong turn" to be? I think it's clear from LotR and the rest of his legendarium that he did think something had gone terribly wrong... [ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: littlemanpoet ] |
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