Short discourse on America's vote, and, unrelated: Anyone want a drabble to cheer them up?
I went to the bookstore this evening and the lady there told me that ALL their papers were sold out! O.O As in, at nine p.m. they didn't have any papers left. The reason, of course, is the vote of the American president, which only got covered here today (as we're ahead of America and the result got in too late for press to cover it yesterday), and
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ME NEITHER >_< I keep waiting for them to revoke my card or something^^" And I never read Moby Dick either. Or Faulkner ^^"
But one of the fascinating things I noticed about Maou since preparing my class on PL Book 1 is that while I kind of wondered when they were going to bring in Paradise Lost, since they were doing the Dante and Goethe intertextuality and then they never did directly bring in Paradise Lost, they todayll did in terms of structure. Because the first two books of Paradise Lost focus on Satan and his fall and pretty much make him out to be in the mold of an epic hero--charismatic, indomitable, determined, sympathetic. So with a basic knowledge of Christian cosmology, you know as the reader that you shouldn't sympathize or cheer for him, and yet . . .
and isn't this pretty much what Maou does? I heard it was a little different in this way from Mawang, though I don't know if it's true--that it focuses first on Naruse's wrongs and emotions and you end up a) sympathizing and b) admiring the style with which he does things and then c) come to the realization that based on law and ethics you so should not be having that response--but you do.
Someday when I have tenure, I'm going to write random conference papers about Maou, I swear ^^"
And as for the prompt-- \o/ YAY! I kind of love the mini genre of "Sho explains or attempts to, anyway the concept of X to . . . " sub-genre of Arashi fic ^^" Because Sho's pain is often hilarious ^_^
And I think you're right about the international perception of the election--I think it also helps that Obama is pretty much known as the opposite of a unilateral leader *crosses fingers that this will continue*
*waves*
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