Saturday, December 10, 2005
fun with excuses?
1So, I have done no reading. Sooooooo moving right along, while engaging in avoidance behavior, I was checking my weblogs and found some interesting things. The following words are leading people to my site:
demon sex possession incantation. Interesting, no?
Went to see Narnia last night. It was good, my son LOVED it. But somehow, it was missing something for me. Harry Potter was better. Lord Of the Rings was a lot better. For me, the Narnia books did not hold up upon a later reading, by age 12, the religious themes were far too obvious to me. I could not get that out of my head for the movie. However, I will say that the centuar warrier totally rocked and whoever played the White Witch was brilliant. The house looked like the same one used for the BBC Narnia (which was hideously bad, I thought) and was totally cool. Definately a go see movie, but see Harry Potter first. I guess I found Narnia to be lacking in complexity, but the books lack the same complexity, being, as they are, allegories. Which, for me, explains why, say,
Milton's Pardise Lost is far more interesting to read than
Spencer's Faerie Queen. Allegory, by it's very nature, seems to require simplicity without moral complexity. In the end, kind of boring.
: Sun Dec 11, 08:49:00 AM PST
