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Re: PC or Mac?
In article <3C5ED07B.40408@noneofyourbusiness.com>,
Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:
>
>J.R.R. Tolkien, in his introduction (or was it the preface?) to Lord of
>the Rings attacked exactly the same point - he hated allegory as a
>genre, and LOTR was consciously not an allegory, nor was it a
>fictionalization of the Second World War, though he did acknowledge that
> his expericences in the war could have colored his writing.
What he acknowledged was that his experiences in the _First_ World War
could have colored his writing.
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Matthew T. Russotto mrussotto@speakeasy.net
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