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Of all the personal development opportunities presented by quarantine knitting, baking sourdough, starting a TikTok there is none so user-friendly as talking to yourself.
Sue Elliott-Nicholls, 52, an actress in Britain, had spent plenty of time listening to her own voice before the pandemic; she makes her living doing voice-overs for television. But when lockdown robbed her of co-worker banter and gossip spilled at the local pub, she began to fill her days with private chatter.
She didn’t always have much to say. “My conversations with myself are proper dull,” she said. “I’ll be like, ‘Should I wash my socks today?’ ‘Yeah, go on, do it today.’”
Much has changed in the fantasy genre in recent decades, but the word ‘fantasy’ still conjures images of dragons, castles, sword-wielding heroes and premodern wildernesses brimming with magic. Major media phenomena such as
Harry Potter and
Game of Thrones have helped to make medievalist fantasy mainstream, and if you look in the kids’ section of nearly any kind of store today you’ll see sanitised versions of the magical Middle Ages packaged for youth of every age. How did fantasy set in pseudo-medieval, roughly British worlds achieve such a cultural status? Ironically, the modern form of this wildly popular genre, so often associated with escapism and childishness, took root in one of the most elite spaces in the academic world.