"look to your kingdoms. / i am coming for them all."

[larryhammer]

"Can we talk about Susan’s fabulous adventures after Narnia?" Plus followup. (via & via)

"Icarus" by Edward Field.

"I quite like the current regeneration of the Pope. I hope this one is around for a few seasons of the show."

Subject quote from "love letters from helen of troy," Elisabeth Hewer.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

I love that poem.

[larryhammer]

I only just discovered it. A good one.

---L.

[kate_nepveu]

I want to stand up and read it out loud, and even more to cast some fabulous actress in a part where she gets to say it and mean it. Which is a lot to evoke in just a few words.

[larryhammer]

Helen Mirren, perhaps. Or Tilda Swindon.

---L.

[branna.livejournal.com]

I like the Susan Pevensie piece and like the author, am a little exasperated at the ingenuous comment referenced in the followup. It was pretty obvious to me that the author had disagreed with Lewis' vision rather than misunderstood it. As do I.

[larryhammer]

The provoking comment was an object lesson in how not to apply disingenuous stupidity.

---L.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, I rolled my eyes at Susan moving to the US. --Matt

[larryhammer]

I think that part was playing off a detail from the recent Dawn Treader movie.

---L.

[rhinemouse.livejournal.com]

I sympathize with feeling that an author has not done justice to his characters, but it seems to me that the Susan Pevensie in that piece has nothing whatsoever to do with the Susan in the books, which makes the whole thing rather pointless. "Susan would be so interesting and feminist if she were a completely different person in every way!" does not strike me as a particularly interesting or inspiring message.

(Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of Susan, but I find her interesting and sympathetic precisely because of how she goes astray, not in spite of it.)

[larryhammer]

Rereading, I see something of a relationship to canon!Susan in the opening, diverging as she grows and changes away from that. But it's possible to disagree on this.

---L.

[rhinemouse.livejournal.com]

People disagree on the internet? You don't say! ;-)

[larryhammer]

Shocking, I know. There's also small places dedicated to pictures of cats.

---L.