tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post6965981487802652524..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: OrthodoxyAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-65188119300508409762022-09-03T09:41:33.241-04:002022-09-03T09:41:33.241-04:00Both works are brilliant; flawed only as he himsel...Both works are brilliant; flawed only as he himself was flawed, and so emphatically and obviously that the flaws are easy to recognize and set aside. Yet I think <i>Orthodoxy</i> is the better work: just "The Ethics of Elfland" and "The Flag of the World" alone are some of the best things ever written on the subject. <br /><br />Exactly what 'the subject' is, however, is harder to say. It is a sort of phenomenology of encountering the world, becoming desensitized to how strange it is, and then trying to re-discover it; a kind of ethical argument that derives rules from nature and pledges loyalty to them; and an exploration of whether mythic/fairy-tale forms or logic are better tools for navigating as world as strange as this one is.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com