Le Guin is my favorite writer and these books are my favorite for these philosophical speeches. I did become an academic philosopher so…

Have we met elsewhere on social media where you’ve heard me say that I can’t understand why people like Rothko?

Wonderstruck by Helen De Cruz.

The humanities are wonderful when my cynicism abates for a short while and you’re surrounded by other likeminded fellows.

...did the same to me. In law, it's written to defend those who own and manage property. In grad school, you are being mentored while being exploited for your labor in that you make R1 research faculty possible. Rant End.

If you are willing to be full-time and to be exploited as a TA for some R1 faculty, then, practically speaking, there will be a place for you most places. Everything else is just icing. A friend of mine recently told me her experience in law school simply made her more of a Marxist. Grad school 1/

Why not!|

I know. Now if I can find a philosophy department with a BA. Then I could do it more than I do now.

I do this for a living. I prescribe books to people. I am a doctor after all.

The best book on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason for beginners would be Sebastian Gardner's Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason

That's a good backstory to revisit.

In my philosophy professors D&D group, one friend always attempts to organize the henchmen of whomever we face. He successfully turned Kobolds on their leader and they started demanding scavenger rights and lower taxes. It was a weird way to win, but yeah that happened. Nat 20 sometimes.

In fantasy, there's already an incredible suspension of disbelief. One doesn't question flying castles, dragons, or elven archers. They just are. Whatever question I ask in fiction, especially here, it can just be accepted as me doing what all fantasy writers have done before me. 6/

This is one of those times that writing fiction reveals more about the writer than the story does about plot. I find myself at the mercy of what I imagine fed by my own learning.
What's oddly reassuring about this effort is the genre of fantasy itself. 5/

In having a fallen angel return to paradise to exact revenge, the Divine doesn't protest in the fictional work. It does not do anything to stop it, and I must decide as the author whether A. the Divine comes to the aid of those in heaven or B. if the fantasy writing is biographical. 4/

It is hidden. The hiddenness of God always irked me. Even when I was a believer I never fully knew or could fathom the amount of evil & suffering in our world to which a morally perfect being would address, but he never came out into the limelight to do anything about the suffering all around us. 3/

I threw out the plot outline completely, but it feels right. In this ending or beginning, I attacked the fantasy world's heaven. The celestial evil force brought the underworld into the material plane. In attacking this world's heaven, the good side of this Manichean Divine is nowhere to be seen. 2/