Oh, what the harsh light of reason hath wrought:

[elfs]

Harsh, but true:

Hollywood has done something even more depressing: It's revealed the "Chronicles of Narnia" books to be what they actually are: a rather lean slice of delightfully wrought but fairly simpleminded, largely hobbled fantasy for the imagination-deprived single-digit set.

You want to have bad dreams? Read Lewis's The Great Divorce and Ted Chiang's Hell is the Absence of God back to back and realize that both Lewis and Chiang are telling the exact same story.

Really.

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Re: Yeesh!

[(Anonymous)]

Hardly different at all... but while they suffer under their delusions (and the rest of us suffer from the actions they take which are driven by those delusions), the rest of us don't have "Acts of God"(TM) going off like tack nukes every so often.