This was such a darn good read, especially this: "Old storytellers didn’t trust our conscious reasoning minds as a standalone source. They knew our senses could be tricked." At once, a lot of modern stories (especially in film) make sense to me regarding their bluntness, and a lot of my (regretably) secular college English and literary classes discussions make more sense too. I need to mull over the even more serious ramifications of this.
Nailed it again Noelle. It’s hard to view stories in such a mechanical and dry fashion once the imagination is involved. It’s hard to even see the Bible as plain as many people want to make it for doctrinal and apologetic purposes, when it is a beautiful story of creations redemption. Your analysis of Snow White proved that
So good. I ran into a situation just this week where someone has completely revised some events we both experienced—she completely flipped the narrative with her reasoning…. Unfortunately it’s also closely tied to how she feels about it all, but she can’t see that. I kept thinking of mirrors and windows, a la Stanford’s fairy tale class.
This was such a darn good read, especially this: "Old storytellers didn’t trust our conscious reasoning minds as a standalone source. They knew our senses could be tricked." At once, a lot of modern stories (especially in film) make sense to me regarding their bluntness, and a lot of my (regretably) secular college English and literary classes discussions make more sense too. I need to mull over the even more serious ramifications of this.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much, Scott! Yes, I agree--the way literary criticism is handled in most modern education makes me want to cry!
Nailed it again Noelle. It’s hard to view stories in such a mechanical and dry fashion once the imagination is involved. It’s hard to even see the Bible as plain as many people want to make it for doctrinal and apologetic purposes, when it is a beautiful story of creations redemption. Your analysis of Snow White proved that
Thanks, Von!
So good. I ran into a situation just this week where someone has completely revised some events we both experienced—she completely flipped the narrative with her reasoning…. Unfortunately it’s also closely tied to how she feels about it all, but she can’t see that. I kept thinking of mirrors and windows, a la Stanford’s fairy tale class.