JasonPratt wrote: I remember several years ago, he drew/wrote an introduction for a graphic novel based on Moorcock's Elric work. Essentially, it was an autobiography about growing up in a horrible British school system, finding escapism in fantasy, especially Narnia, and then feeling betrayed by Lewis--_not_ when he discovered Susan had betrayed Aslan and her family in TLB (or even that 'Susan didn't go to heaven'), but when he discovered that Eustace's story as a dragon had parallels to St. Paul's story. (It did??-- --- um-- okay, whatever...)
Anyway, he felt betrayed by Lewis when he learned Lewis was a Christian and was writing his Christianity into his work.
JasonPratt wrote:Anyway, he felt betrayed by Lewis when he learned Lewis was a Christian and was writing his Christianity into his work.
" wrote:For good or ill the religious allegory, such as it was, went entirely over my head, and it was not until I was about twelve that I found myself realising that there were Certain Parallels. Most people get it at the Stone Table; I got it when it suddenly occurred to me that the story of the events that occurred to Saint Paul on the road to Damascus was the dragoning of Eustace Scrubb all over again. I was personally offended: I felt that an author, whom I had trusted, had had a hidden agenda. I had nothing against religion, or religion in fiction -- I had bought (in the school bookshop) and loved The Screwtape Letters, and was already dedicated to G.K. Chesterton. My upset was, I think, that it made less of Narnia for me, it made it less interesting a thing, less interesting a place. Still, the lessons of Narnia sank deep. Aslan telling the Tash worshippers that the prayers he had given to Tash were actually prayers to Him was something I believed then, and ultimately still believe.
" wrote:C.S. Lewis was the first person to make me want to be a writer. He made me aware of the writer, that there was someone standing behind the words, that there was someone telling the story. I fell in love with the way he used parentheses -- the auctorial asides that were both wise and chatty, and I rejoiced in using such brackets in my own essays and compositions through the rest of my childhood.
KhakiBlueSocks wrote:"I'm going to make you a prayer request you can't refuse..." Cue the violins.
ClosetOtaku wrote:Interesting. I had much the same feeling about Pullman when I realized just what an anti-Christian bigoted zealot he was. I didn't pick up on it until "The Amber Spyglass", but when I did, I was quite disappointed and refused to read any other of his works.
So, perhaps the knife cuts both ways...
uc pseudonym wrote:Could someone who has tell me the exact content of the story in question? I've seen it mentioned a number of places and I have been curious.
Animus Seed wrote:Since you asked (Warning: explicit):
Animus Seed wrote:Even allowing that Aslan isn't actually Jesus and the Chronicles aren't the Bible, even if they are just fiction, if you are aware on any level that Aslan in some way represents Christ and the Witch in some way represents Satan... what's Mr. Gaiman's point there, especially with that last line?
mitsuki lover wrote:Any way I am totally in the dark as to who this Mr.Pullman is,the only Pullman I know of is the city in southeastern Washington where Washington State is located.
mitsuki lover wrote:So I googled Philip Pullman and found his official website.He didn't seem to be the ogre you are trying to make him out to be.Yes,he is an Agnostic but as he himself admits you can't be anti-God when you don't even know IF a God exists.He also had an excerpt from one of his books there and I read it and it was rather good,especially the part where the bear talks.
Personally I would love to get a hold of some of his books and read them to make up my own mind,he seems to be rather a good writer.
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