Lament for Susan Pevensie

inked · 11-19-2009, 01:32 AM

Well, GM, the "if" of the next life will be answered since mortality is 100%. There will either be one or there will not be one. If there is not one, no one will care. If there is one, one will care very much. (You are familiar, are you not, with Pascal's Wager, aka Pascal's Gambit? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager if the details have escaped you.)

I would have been 14 in 1969. I did not, however, discover Lewis or Tolkien until college via a friend at the theatre I worked at in Clemson, SC. She loaned me a copy of LWW and I was off. I have not read all the ones in your list yet, but via the recommendations of Lewis I have read a surprising number of them. Not any Lovecraft yet at all. One of these days.........

Your political interpretation of the dwarfs I find highly amusing as well the amusing Marxist ditty. Though you might want to cross reference Lewis' traveler in THE GREAT DIVORCE who more amply enunciates your claims in complaints about not being taken in by them. And the lack of scullery help as the cause for dons' dissatisfaction literally caused me to laugh! Never has so much been attributed to so little a cause!

This is nearly as entertaining as Freudian interpretations.....................

11-19-2009, 01:32 AM	#32
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Well, GM, the "if" of the next life will be answered since mortality is 100%. There will either be one or there will not be one. If there is not one, no one will care. If there is one, one will care very much. (You are familiar, are you not, with Pascal's Wager, aka Pascal's Gambit? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager if the details have escaped you.) I would have been 14 in 1969. I did not, however, discover Lewis or Tolkien until college via a friend at the theatre I worked at in Clemson, SC. She loaned me a copy of LWW and I was off. I have not read all the ones in your list yet, but via the recommendations of Lewis I have read a surprising number of them. Not any Lovecraft yet at all. One of these days......... Your political interpretation of the dwarfs I find highly amusing as well the amusing Marxist ditty. Though you might want to cross reference Lewis' traveler in THE GREAT DIVORCE who more amply enunciates your claims in complaints about not being taken in by them. And the lack of scullery help as the cause for dons' dissatisfaction literally caused me to laugh! Never has so much been attributed to so little a cause! This is nearly as entertaining as Freudian interpretations..................... __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941