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Post by shaxper on Jul 6, 2002 16:16:33 GMT -5
Wecome, Ellinore! I haven't read the Amber Spyglass series yet, but I've heard wonderful things about it. Someone told me that, in the books, God is a man trapped in a cage who just wants to go home, and that somehow sold me  As for the redemptive quality of Fargo, while I didn't particularly love the film myself, her pregnancy is the redemption; bringing a new innocent life into a corrupt world that she will mother and raise to be a force of good. |
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Post by Ellinore on Jul 6, 2002 16:35:14 GMT -5
*curtsies* Thank you for the welcome.
Perhaps I should watch the film again and think about the pregnancy. I have only seen Fargo once and at the time was quite overcome by the sheer gruesomeness of it.
God in a box is a good thing? *starts generating a recommendation list*
It may be of matter to this discussion to note that a certain philosophical fellow once observed that "these days" were going to hell... children did not obey their parents, young scholars had no respect for tradition, art increasingly focused on ugly subjects and literature no longer held to the divine but rather explored the profane. He was quite convinced that culture as he knew it would cease and be swept from the earth. I would point out that the gentleman's name was Plato.
--Alive and Well with a Bevington 4ed Complete
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Post by shaxper on Jul 6, 2002 16:58:25 GMT -5
Well he had just witnessed the state execution of his instructor and friend. I'd imagine that'd be enough to jade most people.
Perhaps he shoud have participated in more orgies.
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Post by Ellinore on Jul 6, 2002 22:52:42 GMT -5
Maybe that would be a good prescription... for all those who come to such conclusions, don't you think? *stops abruptly realising this would include certain very ugly conservative radio personalities* Nevermind. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.
*glances over at a quote on the wall from Alberto Moravia* "The ratio of literates to illiterates remains unchanged from a century ago, only now, the illiterates can read and write."
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Post by shaxper on Jul 11, 2002 10:11:23 GMT -5
<----Imagines Rush Limbaugh without pants and shudders   |
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Juliet
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Post by Juliet on Aug 2, 2002 2:59:07 GMT -5
*shudder* Now I definitely feel sick..... errrgh....  |
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