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And I Must Spork: Maradonia, Part V, Section A

Nov 04, 2010 22:25

I will soon make a future!post linking to all updates of this spork. But for now, let's go.

( Chapter 13 )

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fae_of_the_rose November 5 2010, 23:41:11 UTC

Protip! So far, the only person I know who's successfully done a Biblical analogy is C.S. Lewis.

Seriously, bb, how are you managing this without booze? XD

pariah164 November 5 2010, 23:44:56 UTC

I don't know, I really don't.

catchingspirit November 5 2010, 23:46:02 UTC

OMG rofl, I just sent this to her in IMs before I saw your comment:

*le sigh* oh, gloria. XD CS Lewis did it so much better. My friend like, hates the Narnia series because it's full of fairly thinly veiled religious metaphor. The difference is, narnia is at least quite enjoyable to read XD

fae_of_the_rose November 5 2010, 23:48:44 UTC

PFFFT Great minds clearly think alike.

catchingspirit November 5 2010, 23:50:25 UTC

I'm laughing so loud I'm going to wake people up reading this spork. Oops?

/comes back to ramble more catchingspirit November 5 2010, 23:54:55 UTC

Of course, it's somewhat a Your Mileage May Vary. Tolkien hated the Narnia books because Lewis jumbled up so many different mythologies and mashed them all together. Most of Lewis' readers would probably argue it ended up working well.

fae_of_the_rose November 5 2010, 23:56:52 UTC

I liked 'em as a kid, before I got the religious thing. Still like them, heck, and the movies are pretty awesome. But yeah, a lot of people are 'ew' about them.

A lot more are 'ew' about this book, however, so XD

catchingspirit November 5 2010, 23:58:49 UTC

I'm Christian, so I don't really mind the metaphor for obvious reasons - as long as it's, you know, done well.

The funny thing is given Tesch's level of writing, I honestly wonder if it is even intentional or not. -_-;

fae_of_the_rose November 6 2010, 00:01:05 UTC

I don't mind any metaphor, so long as it's done well. Religion, nature, otherwise. Just do it right, dammit.

It probably isn't, which makes it worse.

catchingspirit November 6 2010, 00:05:03 UTC

There's not really enough to tell for sure yet. But we have Joey-the-good-guy who she's trying to set up as just the more active and bold one but is making into something much worse. So I don't have much confidence in her actually developing her themes the way she wants.

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