gentlekirk:“I coined the word eucatastrophe: the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with
gentlekirk:“I coined the word eucatastrophe: the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears (which I argued it is the highest function of fairy-stories to produce). And I was there led to the view that it produces its peculiar effect because it is a sudden glimpse of Truth, your whole nature chained in material cause and effect, the chain of death, feels a sudden relief as if a major limb out of joint had suddenly snapped back. It perceives–if the story has literary ‘truth’ on the second plane–that this is indeed how things really do work in the Great World for which our nature is made.” – J.R.R. Tolkien -- source link
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