Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26222852-20150319173634/@comment-26222852-20150917151830

Well I must say I really, really enjoyed it. Not only is it easily readable "by the time of a breath's passing" as we Serbs say, but the most appealing thing is it's composition, the midquel between the Last Wish short stories, and a very slight and in an artist's way somehow sly manner does it compose with the main saga, the characters from the LoL, which were actually there entire Geralt's life, since the Nimue's tower is timeless.

Another, very, very good intro into Geralt's long journey of self-discovery. And then Yennefer's and Ciri's in the main saga, with the messages to us readers, invoking within us that tribal epic mind for literature which finds epic fantasy appealing, so we could better understand the hidden messages (the occult is always hidden,hermetic) to us, what better than through the symbols. Fable as appealing and dramatic in it's composition as ever. When writing a midquel, the composition itself is important, forma dat esse rei(the form gives the substance to the thing). Composition is also relevant for turning a piece into a theatre play or a movie. The way we are heading now, never will the epic fantasy become "out of style". Sure for around 20 years it was replaced with a neo-futurism, but since the dawn of the human existence, the folk spirit told through the epic dramas never was out of style, but what it is: a classic. LOTR already is a classic, though the Nobel prize was kinda "stolen" from Tolkien by Ivo Andric 1961.