Originally Posted by elphenor

I feel you

because bad fiction is the worst time sink for everyone involved, and I can't be bothered with fantasy and such anymore

but you gotta invest yourself in the classics like Camus because they use fiction in a way that's very allegorical and demonstrates a point

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.