Welcome to Eucatastrophic Creations, artistic habitat for
cats, dragons, monkeys, donkeys, living castles, and beasts of the city and the sea. Experience
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About Us
We (Jan and Joe Howse) are artists and designers working in several media.
To find more of our creations and to learn about our services, follow the
links to other
sections of our web domain. Also feel free to
email Joe.
The word "eucatastrophic", in our name, comes from an essay called
"On Fairy-Stories", by J. R. R. Tolkien. He writes,
But the "consolation" of fairy-tales has another aspect than the
imaginative satisfaction of ancient desires. Far more important is the
Consolation of the Happy Ending. Almost I would venture to assert that all
complete fairy-stories must have it. At least I would say that Tragedy is
the true form of Drama, its highest function; but the opposite is true of
Fairy-story. Since we do not appear to possess a word that expresses this
opposite—I will call it Eucatastrophe. The
eucatastrophic tale is the true form of fairy-tale, and its
highest function.
The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more
correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for
there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the
things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially
"escapist," nor "fugitive." In its fairy-tale—or
otherworld—setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be
counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of
dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is
necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much
evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is
evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls
of the world, poignant as grief.
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Our Affiliates
Nummist Media makes cat worship modern.
Nummist Computer Consultants:
Computers don't always work. Luckily, we do. Nummist Computer Consultants (NCC),
located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, serves businesses and homes on site, on demand,
carefully. Software tesing, computer support (Windows, Mac, Linux), digital media,
data mining, research, and customized training are among our services.
Poohbist Technology: Festina lente. Bruta fulmina.
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