Originally published on Facebook October 2 2013. Tonight’s romantic fantasy on Netflix Streaming: UPSIDE DOWN. Two mirror-image worlds, serving as each other’s skies; the boy and girl who fall in love while meeting on each other’s mountaintops. Frankly, as a strict fantasy, it would have had the logic of a fairy tale and been easier […]
Okay, so it now seems that we have to address the issue of preconception in critical appraisal. The impetus is Jonathan Jones, a critic for the UK Guardian who wrote a much-derided essay to the effect that he had never read Terry Pratchett but was certain that he was nothing much. Later, in response to […]
Every child knows that certain adults are enemies of wonder. These adults are not just scornful of fantasy. They are determined predators of it. They may not actually rip a comic book or a DVD out of that child’s hands, but they will let that child know that such pursuits are garbage, and that taking […]
