09-09-2010, 10:39 AM
(09-09-2010, 10:15 AM)AliceChell Wrote: I gave up a long time ago, Penfeather, trying to get friends and family to see my gothic romance reading with something besides an amused and tolerant air. The value of these stories to me and my pleasure in them is not diminished because of it. I good-naturedly (I hope!) join in the laughter at my expense.
But you are right . This forum is validating!
Reading Twilight is hip, reading Gothics is unhip. (For now -- tides change.) People tend to follow the flock. Your attitude sounds healthy and mature. You obviously know yourself.
We all have our escapist needs. J. R. R. Tolkien, responding to the charge of "escapism" in his work, replied, "Oh, yes, I am an escapist -- in the proper sense of the word, the sense of getting out of prison."