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This is one of my favourite quotes: "A woman of taste, Eve chose to pick wisdom, and with her courage for the unknown translated eternity into time, her word into memory, and her entire self into the eternally ticking earth" Willis Barnstone, The Poetics of Translation, 1993 (p. 82) As wow remarks, it all depends on the point of view...  Marianna
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There was an article in Saturday's Melbourne Age, reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly [no issue specified], in which Simon Winchester (author of 'The surgeon of Crowthorne') asks "how did Roget's Thesaurus become synonymous with the intellectually second-rate?" A fascinating read.
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A report in today's Melbourne Age informs us that
" … the Lewis estate and its publishers [HarperCollins] have started shaping a marketing makeover of Aslan and assorted Narnian habitues to expand readership and extend the brand. They have struck deals to licence plush Narnian toys … [and] to create new Narnia novels by unidentified authors … Most striking of all, they have developed a discreet strategy to avoid direct links to the Christian imagery and theology that suffused the Narnia novels and inspired Lewis."
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In reply to:
"how did Roget's Thesaurus become synonymous with the intellectually second-rate?"
Whoever said it had?
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Yes, I've heard about this C. S. Lewis extension from other sources. This is my childhood they're mucking about with. If they want to add to the series, well fine. People have been adding to the Sherlock Holmes corpus for a long time now, but they haven't been able to surpass or come anywhere near the original. But Lewis's Christianity was an essential part of the series. Why change it? Are there really that many people out there who will read the books if the Christian elements are taken out but otherwise wouldn't?
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Lewis's Christianity was an essential part of the series.
I agree, Bingley. It was a board member who suggested that I read the Narnia series, so my first introduction to them was just about a year ago. I thoroughly enjoyed them, I might add. I don't recall that the name of Christ was belabored; but the values run through the very core of the books: they are, by and large, what make the characters do what they do.
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I only noticed the Christian parts when it was obvious, like when Aslan was killed on the table, and otherwise I didn't care. These guys shouldn't be changing it. When I think about it, the plots would need major revising.It seems communistic.
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Hi Bingley:
Winchester argues that "Roget's Thesaurus no longer merits the unvarnished adoration it has received. It should be condemned as a crucial part of the engine that has transported us to our current state of linguistic and intellectual mediocrity."
It's an interesting argument -- anyone seen the original article in The Atlantic Monthly?
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paulb, there you are, trying to stir up trouble again, aren't you? Ugh. 
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"A woman of taste, Eve chose to pick wisdom, and with her courage for the unknown translated eternity into time, her word
into memory, and her entire self into the eternally ticking earth"Very good quotation, Marianna! Now, would you care to comment on the old Hebrew legend of Lilith? There's the story about the creation wherein once Adam realised that he had no partner, he asked god if he might have one. God replied that he could have someone who would be at his side constantly, answering to his every whim, providing for his every desire. "What will such a creature cost me, " Adam asked. "An arm and a leg," the creator replied. Then Adam asked, "What can I get for a rib?" and the rest is history.
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