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Post by Lee on May 29, 2016 22:06:14 GMT -5
Heluvawork by CS Lewis. Humanity represented honestly. Recent read.
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Post by Lee on May 31, 2016 23:35:48 GMT -5
A daughter of a king in a pre Christian world experiences three insults to life. Her father's a brute. Shes ugly. Her beloved half sister is sacrificed to pacify the mad passions of the commoners. The desire to be loved is the central theme of several in this complex book.
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Post by dmmichgood on Jun 1, 2016 0:17:33 GMT -5
A daughter of a king in a pre Christian world experiences three insults to life. Her father's a brute. Shes ugly. Her beloved half sister is sacrificed to pacify the mad passions of the commoners. The desire to be loved is the central theme of several in this complex book. A daughter of a king in a pre Christian world experiences three insults to life. Her father's a brute. Shes ugly. Her beloved half sister is sacrificed to pacify the mad passions of the commoners. The desire to be loved is the central theme of several in this complex book. ehm... Sounds a bit like reverse Cinderilla story. Maybe I'll read it
In spite of the fact that they were so religious ideas oriented, -I liked the Narnia Chronicles.
Tried to read the Screwtape Letters got bogged down.
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Post by Lee on Jun 2, 2016 11:21:51 GMT -5
You might find the book interesting to its conclusion. Lewis' protangonist is a woman, and his novel is one in which one might might well infer a theme of femanism in those respects woman are stronger than men. Psyche, who is a woman, figures as Christ as the narrative plays out and Orual, her older, half sister, figures as her devoted lover. Till We Have Faces is an inquiry into our identity as we experience, respond, and react to the tensions between the human condition and our idealizations of living. Lewis' novel may be challenging to the strict physicalist by assuming the fundamental nature of the mind. Orual's dreams, visions, and live-a-day perceptions, as well as the phantasm of pagan sacrifice are equally woven into the narrative.
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