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At the end of August…

beware of spoilers for: the screwtape letters, wide-ranging sargasso sea, on the road, the stranger, the old fetter and the sea, dune and the unsupportable lightness of being, as well as more general discussion of the chronicles of narnia, jane eyre, atlas shrugged, neal cassady, unnatural, the great gatsby, desolation angels, ‘the old man’, austen’s novels and dh lawrence’s writing.maybe i should be concerned about the possibility of getting sued since flagrant plagiarizing? even a casual glance through my entry titles shows myriad examples of my penchant for filching lyrics and other quotations. oh swell, ahem, good writers touch someone for from other writers. great writers steal from them entirely. (at least i have the chagrin to grant that i’m stealing aaron sorkin’s words from the hot air of sam seaborn there.)on the conditional on of writing, since another month is fading into that strange and distant land called the gone and forgotten, i declare it sometime benefit of another book round-up post! woo, and a mighty hoo.first of all can we all take a interest to rejoice in the fact that i honestly have nothing more to imagine about atlas shrugged? nada. zip. zilch. (unless it’s in correspondence to other things, which is positively overwhelmingly and totally different.)forth to books i wish to thrash out at in the long run b for a long time! starting with the screwtape letters (although not really, as you’ll see). let me preface this by pointing out two things: i unqualifiedly adulate the chronicles of narnia, and i beget a deep and fixed qualm of doctrine. add to that the fact that i actually rather enjoyed the screwtape letters and you comprise a situation which appears a little contradictory. i feel like a sort of narnia apologist (in both senses of the word) then, because whilst i can see (and indeed saw as a child too) the christian symbolism and clear holy dispatch which is both implicit and explicit in the series, it does little to dull my inclination in reading the books again and again. i presume it’s partly because lewis’ portrayal of aslan-as-christ represents a very specific (and almost odd) version of ‘muscular’ christianity which doesn’t necessarily call up all of the things which i normally associate with religion/christianity, simply because its somewhat out of the ordinary. mostly but i think that although lewis obviously became a devout christian in later life, he was influenced by his long period of, if not moderately agnosticism, indifference. he treats christian theology as he treats other mythologies (greek and mesopotamian, for example)- something thoroughly of beautiful ideas and images which are ripe for the plundering when creating a fantastic and fantastical the public.i bear extreme more problem with the blatant racism and lack of exact open-mindedness in the books, especially the horse and his small fry and the last battle. the sexism actually isn’t as rife as you’d demand (although a clear eminence is made between male and female roles uniquely in the earlier books), but something that does really aggravate me is the unspecified unexplained dismissal of susan in the last battle. it’s declared that she’s no longer a friend of narnia because she likes nylons and lipstick, and whilst this snarkiness is kind of likable (especially when you’re a solemn six year old) it doesn’t uncommonly appearance of fair to her. susan could be a slightly annoying normal (and she’s been even more castrated in the shield adaptations) but she wasn’t by any means portrayed as a bad person. i think that if lewis wanted to sparing the number of these ‘friends’ down to the magical number seven he could induce at least had the decency to include a scene in which susan rejected narnia more readily than just shoehorning the point in. peradventure she also ought to have been given a probability to make restitution for herself too, after all edmund and eustace are both given that break and their crimes seem worse than developing a taste for make-up (although that certa

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