In a big way - huh?
So there I am, happily reading Seven Seasons of Buffy - for the first time, despite the fact that it was published in 2003. Suddenly, I come across this:
In C.S. Lewis's Narnia books, at least one of the kids, George, grows up to "remember" that his trips to Narnia were all a game. He manages to enter adulthood only by repressing the fantasies of childhood. Only they weren't fantasies; they were alien realities! (Naturally he's the one who winds up with the best-paying job.)
Huh? And again, huh?
First, how did the author of the article come to write this? Second, how did the editor of the book not pick this up?
The absolute confidence with which this was written reminded me of an essay from a history student I read that suggested that the reason the sixth-century monk Gildas played down the role of (King) Arthur was that he was afraid of offending the Normans. After staring at this for a while I actually needed to go and confirm my recollection that the Normans did in fact invade Britain in the eleventh century, and that a sixth-century Briton was unlikely to be worrying about them. Similarly, I almost went to grab my copies of The Last Battle - but didn't.
In C.S. Lewis's Narnia books, at least one of the kids, George, grows up to "remember" that his trips to Narnia were all a game. He manages to enter adulthood only by repressing the fantasies of childhood. Only they weren't fantasies; they were alien realities! (Naturally he's the one who winds up with the best-paying job.)
Huh? And again, huh?
First, how did the author of the article come to write this? Second, how did the editor of the book not pick this up?
The absolute confidence with which this was written reminded me of an essay from a history student I read that suggested that the reason the sixth-century monk Gildas played down the role of (King) Arthur was that he was afraid of offending the Normans. After staring at this for a while I actually needed to go and confirm my recollection that the Normans did in fact invade Britain in the eleventh century, and that a sixth-century Briton was unlikely to be worrying about them. Similarly, I almost went to grab my copies of The Last Battle - but didn't.