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Monday, August 21, 2006
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I am a chronologist... i will always support the artist's preference just as i support the will of the creator.
11:59 AM, August 21, 2006
though, i must admit to having read them in publishing date order. if i had know about the professor's adventures from the beginning i feel i would have gleaned a great deal more. whether a chronologist or a publicationist, one also should address agism. can someone over age 14 experience the same wonder as a girl who reads them during law school at age 25 and as a break while attempting to get through Brothers Karamazov for the 5th time (which happened to be the first and last time she completed reading the entire book)?
12:07 PM, August 21, 2006
It is a fact that the artist never knows the true value of his work, nor the best medium for its expression. Besides, some obscure reference in a letter to an american little boy hardly tells us Lewis's true feelings on the subject.
12:08 PM, August 21, 2006
concerning agism, I believe you will find the answer to that question in the dedication of TLTWATW.
12:10 PM, August 21, 2006
I suppose you also think that Job should be the first book in the bible?
12:13 PM, August 21, 2006
er, wait, job being the first book would be supported by my view, D'OH.
12:14 PM, August 21, 2006
I am a publicationist as well Matthew. Reading the Lion... first makes all the other books meaningful. I think if CS were able to speak to us--he would agree.
12:43 PM, August 21, 2006
I am a publicationist. I like the puzzly aspect of it, finding out new bits along the way.
I do think it's interesting how our perspective changes with age. As a child I read them and didn't get what the big deal about Aslan was. He didn't seem very nice.
I read them again in college and liked them more, though I got into trouble with Ichthus girls because I tried to have a conversation about "The Last Battle" and who gets into heaven.
1:11 PM, August 21, 2006
i am pretty much too afraid to have a conversation with anyone regarding the last battle. i like the cathechism of the catholic church on the topic... distinguishing between what we hope for and what we know.
2:58 PM, August 21, 2006
do we know anyone who read them chronologically? regardless of my support for the creator's view, the fact is i read them in publication order, i can never undo that.
3:07 PM, August 21, 2006
I too am a strict publicationist. Like Betsy said I enjoy unlocking little bits of the puzzle as you go along, "Oh that is how that lamp got there", "so that is why the wardrobe was magical". Like Matt said you can hardly call a letter surely written among hundreds of letters to a kid as authors undeniable intent.
I am in the middle of the Magicians Nephew with Jacob right now. Razing myself another little publicationist.
5:27 PM, August 21, 2006
ah, nattyman, spelling counts!
Razing: Levelling to the ground, demolishing.
Raising: Bringing up, rearing.
:)
6:39 PM, August 21, 2006
I read the Magicians Nephew first. Several years later I read the Lion etc. I will one of these days read whatever comes next and so on. On the other hand, Finney has read the series 4 times that I know of and I think he is a chronology fan. By the way I saw an armadillo on the way home tonight. I was slowing down to look at him but was afraid I might get rear-ended by the only other car on the road. I think he had a hybrid-
mutant of some kind in his mouth.
1:37 AM, August 22, 2006
{:o!
I feel like recing TMN before TLTWATW is like watching The Sixth Sense starting with the big reveal...
7:59 AM, August 22, 2006
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8:45 PM, August 25, 2006
I didn't realize I was being graded Betsy. Thanks for the heads-up.
Matt, or it is like watching the backwards Seinfeld forward.
10:27 PM, August 25, 2006
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