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Let us not ask whether Tolkien could, in fact, despite his protestation to the contrary, have said more. It didn’t really matter. Far more importantly, the fact of that correspondence, along with its swiftness, and the sense it allowed,
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I remember hearing about this story in the mid-90s, after Terry replied to an email or two that I'd sent him. I remember thinking of the great Terry Pratchett as not a lofty, remote figure, but as an accessible mortal with a computer...
“All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.”
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Jonathan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jonathan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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553 books
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166 books
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57 books
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51 books
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193 books
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75 friends
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