J.K. Rowling
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J.K. Rowling is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between April 22, 2022 and May 29, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Authors who use their initials on their books (eg J.K. Rowling)”; “Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling”; “mass culture ends up at … J.K. Rowling”. It most often appears alongside Jesus, Russia, 15th century Sicilian manuscript.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: April 22, 2022
- Last seen: May 29, 2024
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Consider people who go by their first and middle initials, eg John Q Smith introduces himself as “Hi, I’m J.Q.” Authors who use their initials on their books (eg J.K. Rowling) don’t count, unless they also go by their initials in everyday life.
We divide “high culture” from “mass culture”. High culture, those books that plumb the depths of the human spirit, go from the Iliad through the great Greek tragedies through Dante and Shakespeare and so on to Tolstoy, Proust, and Knausgaard. Mass culture - those books that the average person finds entertaining - might also start with the Iliad, but ends up at Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling, and Batman comics.
Although they were famous for a strict anti-magical materialism (for example, they thought God and angels were material beings), they don’t seem to be the origin of J.K. Rowling’s “muggles”; see here for speculation.
Inline links: see here for speculation