apparently we need to keep saying this

[calimac]

or, it's not only Tolkien I keep going on about

Aslan didn't do anything to Susan. She did it to herself. She doesn't return to Narnia because she doesn't believe in the place any more. Lipstick is not the cause of her (self-)banishment but a symptom of her disease. She's a teenager who wants to be all Grown-Up and Fashionable, and retaining appreciation of her childhood loves and fancies doesn't fit in with her "mature" self-image. Real maturity, as Polly says, would embrace at least a fond recollection of what one enjoyed in childhood.

(the generating irritant)

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Closed minds.

[chorale.livejournal.com]

BC so clearly doesn't get the books.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

I was stuck by #7, "When he kills all of Susan's family at once." That's a classic case of not accepting the author's premise.

If you grant the assumption of the series that Aslan is actually an incarnation of God, then killing people's entire families at once is something that Aslan does all the time. It probably happens every day, in the primary world, and theists believe that what happens in the primary world is God's will. This isn't strange or foreign to people who know the scriptures—it's all there in Job.

[incandescens]

Agreed. Thank you.

[yumiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Right there with you! The whole thing nearly made my eyes fall out, I was rolling them so hard. (Found this post via flemmings, btw.)