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You know, when I was in writing class in my senior year of college, my professor had a theory. She said that she thought most people fell into two categories as children: Narnia kids or Neverland kids. You could love both, but there was one you wanted to find more than other. You either dug in the back of every closet looking for snow, or you
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Definitely a Narnia kid, by the way. It's funny, I liked Peter Pan, but it was Narnia that got its hooks into me first, and I really did hide in the back of closets and stuff. I actually moved a whole bunch of old blankets and toys into one that my parents didn't use much and would happily hang out back there for hours.
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See, that was what our professor said! She was always hanging out in closets and pounding on the back wall. :D I think I might have done the same once or twice, but I gave up when it didn't seem to be working. I was trying to think back to how early Peter Pan got me and realized that my second Halloween costume was Tinkerbell. I even refused to speak in words and made little 'bell' noises all day instead. I think I was about three? And then in the Halloween parade, I found a boy my age who was dressed as Peter and we walked together, holding hands. XD
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That is so cute. Both stories. ^_^
I wonder if there's a link between introversion and extraversion in the Narnia-Peter Pan scheme? Or what other factors might come into play.
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That's a very interesting thought. Though, in the end, I wonder if that can pair down even more to the character who you identify with in either of those universes. Like youngcurmudgeon, she was a Neverland kid and she was more quiet, like she said down below. I got the impression that she might have related more to Wendy when we used to talk about it. I was always very firmly identifying with ( ... )
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(Speaking of Lord of the Rings, we were wondering the other night why it is that while no less than three performers in the various skating events at the Olympics this year have used "Lux Aeterna" from Clint Mansell's Requiem for a Dream score, no one seems to be using Howard Shore's music from LOTR. Seems obvious, really.)
I know I identified most strongly with Lucy, and to a slightly lesser extent with Jill. Both characters have moments where they're out of sync with their peers, and it frustrates them-and being kind of a dreamy, imaginative kid, I could definitely relate to that.
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I think that might be the only Priceline commercial I have not seen. How is that possible? XD I must find it....
(You'd think people would realize that just because it's a movie with elves in it, that doesn't make the soundtrack less epic. *sigh*)
Aw, Lucy. ^_^ I loved Lucy (and Jill too, now that I think of it), but I recall being more of a Peter kid when I read the books. Probably because I got the strongest Luke Skywalker vibe from him. Funny enough, Aslan was always my favorite character, partly because I love lions (which could be a Leo thing with me), and also because I viewed him as a teaching figure. You can imagine my surprise when I got older and was finally confronted with the Biblical allegory elements, and suddenly went -- my favorite character is JESUS??! O_O
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It's really new; I think they only just started airing it during the Olympics. Definitely funny, especially for the old school Trek fan.
(Considering someone skated to what I'm pretty sure was the Pirates of the Caribbean theme arranged for a chamber orchestra, you'd think it'd be a shoo-in.)
I think I told you about how weirdly thick I was about the Christian allegory in Narnia? I actually went through a phase at about 10 where I was intensely Catholic, and I kind of backed away from the Narnia books because I thought they were "pagan". >.< Sometimes I am really unimpressed with my childhood self, I tell you.
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Aaahahaha, found it on YouTube. The beard. It's so, so... IIIIII AM CAPTAIN KIIIIIIRK! Ahem. Excuse me. I have no idea what that was. >_>
(Wow. Okay, no excuse then. These people need to get their nerd together.)
We've had Narnia talks before, but I'm not sure that bit came up. You know... I'm trying to figure out what about that is more interesting; the fact that you thought they were pagan, or the fact that you became Catholic at the age of 10. (Especially since, at the age of 10, my Catholic best friend was always trying to get me to come to church with her with because she was bored... which led to an amusing situation where I ended up taking a communion wafer because no one bothered to explain to me what was going on. XD)
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I think J.R.R. Tolkien would've blamed my confusion on Lewis's sloppy worldbuilding. XD I mean, really, he throws in Bacchus and the Maenads. And Christmas. I still can't quite figure out how that super-religious phase came about, in hindsight. Especially since it wasn't long after that I started reading Sartre and Camus and not particularly understanding them very well, but getting just enough to go "...wait a minute" with the whole religion thing.
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Tolkien would have been very right. That, and you could take Aslan's sacrifice as a very pagan sort of ritual, really - in a 'kill some goats and spring will come' sort of way. I think Lewis always figured he could squeeze by on that whole "They're kids! They totally won't notice!" argument. Man, if I had read Sartre and Camus at that age, though... I think I would have had the same reaction I had when I read it for the first time in high school (which was essentially "I hate you, existentialism." To this day I cannot explain my anger. XD) But I can imagine how quickly that would confuse any religious ideas you had. The Stranger is definitely not full of fluffy Jesus-bunnies.
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