Buffy ,'End of Days'
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He was saying that it was about a loss of innocence, yes, but more as growing out of innocence into wisdom rather than a loss.
That's an interesting point. For something that is so fundamental, so needful to understanding and experiencing life, it's almost creepily often portrayed as tragic.
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That's an interesting point. For something that is so fundamental, so needful to understanding and experiencing life, it's almost creepily often portrayed as tragic.
Yeah, there's a large element of our culture that views the opposite of innocence as corruption. And if you look at it that way, it's easy to figure that people (especially children) should be protected, not just from genuinely dangerous things, but from knowledge.
But if the opposite of innocence is experience, everything changes. Thus all the William Blake.
So, I finished The Sweet Far Thing (the third Libba Bray book).
Wow. Yeah. She did a thing that I totally didn't see coming. I mean, *really.*
The book? Fantastic. Really fucking fantastic.
Gaaaah. My copy of The Sweet Far Thing arrives this week. I can't wait!
For something that is so fundamental, so needful to understanding and experiencing life, it's almost creepily often portrayed as tragic.
It's the fall from Eden. It's almost hardwired into us that no matter how pragmatic the result of our feet touching the ground, it makes the baby Jesus cry (feel free to ignore the timelines violated in this post).
This Cassie Edwards thing just gets more and more hysterical.
She A) plagiarized for the AUTHOR'S NOTE and B) plagiarized from the goddamn ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA.
And now this:
SAVAGE OBSESSION
Page 284 (pg 434 in Large Type edition)
The odors of the forest, the dew and damp meadow, and the curling
smoke from the wigwams were left behind as Lorinda […]
HIAWATHA by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (!):
Lines 3-5 of the Introduction
With the odors of the forest,
With the dew and damp of meadows,
With the curling smoke of wigwams
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LONGFELLOW?? She stole Longfellow??
Holy schnikes.