William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
OK, this book is creeping me out. Elsie's father keeps making all these ridiculous rules for her, with the sole purpose seeming to be to teach her to unquestioningly obey. And Elsie is so terrified of her father not loving her that she does whatever he says.
Is there supposed to be a message in this book? Because I really don't see it.
thanks Hil and Typo Boy! Dang, it's not on youtube.
Is there supposed to be a message in this book?
Oh, I think you are seeing it. I also think I'm really glad to be living now and not then.
And who cares about New Zealand.
Besides me? Sox and her sister that lives there might have a strong opinion.
Calling Perkins: there are a few pictures of my obviously pregnant self up on Facebook. Not great ones -- for some reason my niece concentrated her efforts last weekend on the birthday girl and her cousins and not her old auntie.
My favorite proverb, revised, is:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you get him out of the house for the weekend.
OK, as far as I can tell, the message of Elsie Dinsmore is that it's your Christian duty to respect and obey your father, even if he's a sadistic abusive asshole.
OK, as far as I can tell, the message of Elsie Dinsmore is that it's your Christian duty to respect and obey your father, even if he's a sadistic abusive asshole.
I haven't read the book, but I'd bet it's paralleling the relationship you're supposed to have with your "Heavenly Father," as a Christian.
The message I'm taking, just from your comments so far, is "Down with the patriarchy! Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!"
Every single other character in the book, child and adult, says that her father is a tyrant and cruel. Like, in one scene, at a party, a friend of her father's asks her to play the piano and sing something. Elsie says she's too shy, she can't play and sing in front of this many people. The friend says that he withdraws his request, she doesn't have to sing if it'll upset her that much, but then her father says that no, he orders her to play and sing as requested. She's crying so much that she can't see the music or get her voice out, and totally makes a mess of the playing and singing, and her father says that she's humiliated him by performing so badly in front of his guests and sends her to bed without dinner.
Oh, and her father is not a Christian and thinks that Christians are hypocrites, which is one of the reasons that he doesn't particularly like Elsie, because she is a Christian.
Calling Perkins: there are a few pictures of my obviously pregnant self up on Facebook. Not great ones -- for some reason my niece concentrated her efforts last weekend on the birthday girl and her cousins and not her old auntie.
YAY