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This being my first post of substance on the Q&A board, I hope that, should I prove repetitive, banal, or otherwise unpleasant, Mr. Moorcock and the balance of regular posters will forgive me.
It strikes me as typical of newcomers to engage in a long and detailed accounting of how the author's works were discovered and how they have influenced the poster over time. To be sure, I have my own story along these lines, but I consider it sufficient to say simply this: I discovered Mr. Moorcock's work through a bibliophilic friend in junior high school and, having recently set J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings aside as dreadfully cumbersome and irrationally optimistic, found Elric of Melnibone a breath of fresh air. My love of the Eternal Champion cycle remains undiminished and notions of the Multiverse and the Balance have shaped my own thoughts on literary cosmology to a substantial degree.
I am curious to know, if Mr. Moorcock is pleased to share with us, how much of the Multiverse and the conflict between Law and Chaos reflects his own personal view of the cosmos and how much is an artifice native only to his writing. To what degree might it be said that personal beliefs about multiplanar mechanics and so-forth in our reality has led to the realization of a fictional world in which such things regularly manifest in the visible realm?
Thank you for your time; I look forward to any insight which may be provided.
It strikes me as typical of newcomers to engage in a long and detailed accounting of how the author's works were discovered and how they have influenced the poster over time. To be sure, I have my own story along these lines, but I consider it sufficient to say simply this: I discovered Mr. Moorcock's work through a bibliophilic friend in junior high school and, having recently set J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings aside as dreadfully cumbersome and irrationally optimistic, found Elric of Melnibone a breath of fresh air. My love of the Eternal Champion cycle remains undiminished and notions of the Multiverse and the Balance have shaped my own thoughts on literary cosmology to a substantial degree.
I am curious to know, if Mr. Moorcock is pleased to share with us, how much of the Multiverse and the conflict between Law and Chaos reflects his own personal view of the cosmos and how much is an artifice native only to his writing. To what degree might it be said that personal beliefs about multiplanar mechanics and so-forth in our reality has led to the realization of a fictional world in which such things regularly manifest in the visible realm?
Thank you for your time; I look forward to any insight which may be provided.
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