Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
Enjoyment
I would rather enjoy a person, place, thing or experience than love it, for the same reason I prefer to walk about freely rather than in chains. There is a neediness to love, a whiff of obsession, which often strikes me as subtly demeaning to everyone involved.
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