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   Prai Jei to All   
   Re: Pullman takes aim at Narnia film   
   23 Oct 05 21:08:43   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.childrens, rec.arts.movies.current-films,    
   lt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: pvstownsend@zyx-abc.fsnet.co.uk   
      
   Derek Janssen (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message   
   :   
      
   > And specifically, that children who retain their tolerance of   
   > fairytales--and the willingness to accept archetypal good-vs-evil   
   > morality under unusual circumstances--on into middle-age adulthood   
   > manage to keep their willing suspension-of-disbelief perspective well   
   > intact towards certain *other* supernatural ideas of right and wrong in   
   > our own world--   
   Do you mean *unnatural* ideas as promulgated by the PC brigade? Or are you   
   referring to the True Source of Good and he who rebelled against his Lord   
   and Maker as though He is nothing but a fairy-tale character?   
      
   > Much longer than those who spent their time wanting to rush out of   
   > childhood and become "grown-up" as soon as possible,   
   And growing up shallow?   
      
   > (Ironic, in a way, when applied to the "Aha, it's the *lipstick*, isn't   
   > it?" whiners looking for an easy PC-deconstructionist fight...)   
   Not sure of the relevance of lipstick to dismantling personal computers :)   
      
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