If this is overreaching, so be it.
May. 24th, 2005 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI realized I was overreaching and wandering into Neal Stephenson's territory when it suddenly occurred to me that one of the central conflicts of Moon, Sun, and Dragons centers on whether or not Cheilliene', an old-school romantic who loathes the formulation of "friendships" vs. "romances" among the nobility, comes to understand that the current (for 1600) fear of intimate friendships comes from the Augustinian concept of selfhood, a concept she has to embrace (and consequently abandon the Aristotelian notion) if she is to succeed in her quest.
Must. Read. More. Dorothy. Dunnet.
Well, now that the Left Behind series is finished, and Jesus has returned to slaughter the otherwise innocent but non-Christians in a haze of blood and gore that would have made Tobe Hooper pleased, how is Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins to make any cash? Why, write prequels of course! And in the very first prequel, The Rising, we learn that the Antichrist is "the genetically engineered offspring of two homosexual men." It's two! Two! Two fundamentalist bugaboos in one!
Must. Read. More. Dorothy. Dunnet.
Well, now that the Left Behind series is finished, and Jesus has returned to slaughter the otherwise innocent but non-Christians in a haze of blood and gore that would have made Tobe Hooper pleased, how is Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins to make any cash? Why, write prequels of course! And in the very first prequel, The Rising, we learn that the Antichrist is "the genetically engineered offspring of two homosexual men." It's two! Two! Two fundamentalist bugaboos in one!
