I avoided seeing the Narnia movie, and I'm going to stay the hell away from the Dark Is Rising movie. It just sounds all, all wrong.
Walden Media is a Christian outfit, too, so it's interesting that they're co-opting The Dark Is Rising, because the book is decidedly non-Christian. In an actual theological discussion in the book, Will shuffles around uncomfortably trying to speak truthfully without offending his honest church rector.
I think if anyone is Chosen, you are, Sue. I wonder if most people wonder if they are at least Truman Burbank after so many birthdays pass with no letter from Hogwarts
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Mine is the novel, which is tricky, because there are all sorts of ways for novels to bog down.
Not that we are getting to middle age, but here's an interesting bit of Anne Morrow Lindbergh that I hold close, because it is indeed a relief to know that cannibal touristing is not for me.
Saying no to Harvard Law School was a lot of fun, much more fun than having an opportunity to say yes to Harvard undergrad would have been.
Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. Perhaps one can shed at this stage in life as one sheds in beach-living; one’s pride, one’s false ambitions, one’s mask, one’s armor. Was that armor not put on to protect one from the competitive world? If one ceases to compete, does one need it? Perhaps one can at last in middle age, if not earlier, be completely oneself. And what a liberation that would be
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Walden Media is a Christian outfit, too, so it's interesting that they're co-opting The Dark Is Rising, because the book is decidedly non-Christian. In an actual theological discussion in the book, Will shuffles around uncomfortably trying to speak truthfully without offending his honest church rector.
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Re Narnia, there's now a Prince Caspian *shudder*
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Mine is the novel, which is tricky, because there are all sorts of ways for novels to bog down.
Not that we are getting to middle age, but here's an interesting bit of Anne Morrow Lindbergh that I hold close, because it is indeed a relief to know that cannibal touristing is not for me.
Saying no to Harvard Law School was a lot of fun, much more fun than having an opportunity to say yes to Harvard undergrad would have been.
Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. Perhaps one can shed at this stage in life as one sheds in beach-living; one’s pride, one’s false ambitions, one’s mask, one’s armor. Was that armor not put on to protect one from the competitive world? If one ceases to compete, does one need it? Perhaps one can at last in middle age, if not earlier, be completely oneself. And what a liberation that would be ( ... )
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