Well, I have read the books & recognize the references (have NOT seen
the film), but it was that nice touch of the final stanza that got to
me in the way Fred mentioned.
Doug
On 8-Mar-06, at 2:21 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
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> Adrian and his swimming pool gaze.
> "Is Lucy for real?" In earnest;
> he loves the cover drawing
> of the two dancing with Aslan
> and has to have one last look,
> over and over, so he can hold it
> past the threshold of sleep.
> “Is Edmund real, then? Or Susan?”
>
> “But they’re real names, at least?
> There are children, somewhere,
> with names like these?”
>
> - kms, Trondheim, 08/03/06
>
> This is quite nice. Its meaning floats free of the C. S. Lewis
> references. (Luckily, because I loathe every aspect of C. S. Lewis.)
> Mysterious, haunting. Needs a title.
>
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Douglas Barbour
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The Cross drops its image
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