Word: sagas
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...from the old man who ran the Grolier bookstore and took turns staying up around the clock to read it. Afterward; for many nights at the Hays-Bick after the Crimson was on the press, John Beebe would tell us stories about the ancient epics from which Tolkien's saga descended and about the interningled people and languages behind them. It was the kind of education that perhaps was not available in the Boston of Henry Adams...
...from the old man who ran the Grolier bookstore and took turns staying up around the clock to read it. Afterward; for many nights at the Hays-Bick after the Crimson was on the press, John Beebe would tell us stories about the ancient epics from which Tolkien's saga descended and about the interningled people and languages behind them. It was the kind of education that perhaps was not available in the Boston of Henry Adams...
Intent on observing what he calls the "etiquette of the saga," he persuaded Lucas to tell him what happened to the characters before Star Wars began and demanded that Lucas always be available by phone, so that he could find out how a character should look or think in Lucas' universe. "I acted as the ultimate source," explains Lucas. "I was the only one that had the whole vision...
...there is more to Lucas' bleak expression than weariness or worry. There is a fundamental, existential malaise, and as he describes it, the telling of the Star Wars saga has taken a terrible toll on him. "The sacrifice I've made for Star Wars may have been greater than I wanted," he says. "After Graffiti, Star Wars could have gone in the toilet and it wouldn't have mattered financially. It's an interesting choice I made, and now I'm burned out. In fact, I was burned out a couple of years...
...saga sometimes sounds like a comic book or a children's TV serial, magnified a thousand times over, it is no accident. Lucas grew up on both. His father George Sr., who owned a prosperous stationery store in Modesto, was a rigorous man who tried to teach his son and three daughters the old-fashioned virtues: early to bed, early to rise; be true to yourself; work hard, be frugal. His father was convinced that the son paid no attention. "He never listened to me," says George Sr. "He was his mother's pet. If he wanted...