From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 06:41:39 MDT
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 02:17:46 -0400, gts <gts_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Michael M. Butler wrote:
>
>> What I have vivid memories of is that [Golding's LOTF] got Piggy's
>> glasses
>> wrong... unpardonable in a book that's supposed to be about objective
> reality.
>
> Dear God, Michael! You're right! That book has no real value given that
> Piggy's optometrist gave him the wrong prescription for the plot!
>
> :-)
It is fatally flawed. But then, aren't we all? "I have a really cool idea,
except for the fact that I can't be bothered to make my Macguffin actually
correspond to the way the world works--that'd be too haaaaaard." Feh. Not
unlike Jacqueline Suzanne writing SF. Somebody haul up the "Magic Realism"
flag and I *might* salute.
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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