#ek-stasis

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Tacey on the daily need of the soul. From, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨.

[Thea]

[elucubrare]

I did a phone interview just now at my parents’ apartment, with my dad there, so I was listening to myself more than usual and thinking throughout the whole thing “who’s this fake bitch, I don’t know her”

[septembersung]

No story is great unless it sucks us in, takes us up out of our bodies, and gives us an out-of-body experience, an ek-stasis, standing outside yourself in another. Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.

Peter Kreeft, from the introduction to The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings, p. 18.