Substitutionary Locomotion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSRWwdFHEU
With a Flair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V5OrGOeTRw
Higitus Figitus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uimyetd3PNo
Zap the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWJskztzetY
Stonehenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4NTXWz4cMw
The Best Song in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy5S8s6rTH0
Diggy Diggy Hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWz0qVvBZ0
The Age of Magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOeHuevNMk&list=PLrfu1mNqTP1al7W7m7jDTQnDFd_DK_Y5x&index=40
Fantasy is fun and funny,
both funny ‘ha-ha’ and funny ‘peculiar’; this is often what first draws people,
when children, to the genre. One cannot deny the humor of, say, The Hobbit.
It is carried over into the much more serious The Lord of the Rings,
especially around the hobbits, who can be seen as a link between more modern attitudes
and the legendary world in which they move; the dissonance of which provides a
more subtle humor, as well as a bridge between outlooks.
Especially when one is a
child, the idea of magic, where wishing meets reality and wishing wins for
once, is quite appealing, an idea that makes the heart light. People who
mistake Fantasy for so-called real life ‘Magik’ find that their search ends in
blasphemy, loveless eroticism, animal sacrifice, hardness of heart, and
futility. They have not comprehended where the true power of Fantasy lies and
are trying to use it to scrub their portholes. The use of Fantasy is to ease
our burdens inside and help us to bear them with hope.
But young kids (and kids at
heart) know how to use Fantasy instinctively, even satirically, deprecatingly,
to help take off the curse of the label of ‘Escapism’ while still tapping
somehow into the heart of the thing. I find ‘fantasists’ like George R. R.
Martin are not writing real Fantasy, just books with dragons, magic, and
knights. There is an essential spirit lacking. Perhaps it is fun.
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