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authorMatěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>2020-07-31 10:01:11 +0200
committerMatěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>2020-07-31 10:01:11 +0200
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Typos in Problem of Gaiman
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@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@ The Problem of Neil Gaiman
So, it happened. I read “The problem of Susan” by Neil Gaiman and
I am completely disgusted by it. Not because Aslan did the White
-Witch proper, or because he ate all those lovely little
-children. Serves them well, and it is certainly the author’s
-prerogative to decide that somebody else’s God is actually
-a nasty daemon.
+Witch proper, or because he ate all those lovely little children.
+Serves them well, and it is certainly the author’s prerogative to
+decide that somebody else’s God is actually a nasty daemon.
What I do object though is that Neil does not seem to understand
what C. S. Lewis was trying to say about Susan at all which is
@@ -22,25 +21,26 @@ in any personally close community, where deep issues of life are
dealt with (e.g., Alcoholics Anonymous?), or perhaps you are just
very good friends. There’s that person you knew for years, you
were very close, crying together, praying (or whatever is
-appropaite) together, and you believed you understand each other.
-And suddenly this person leaves your community for the flimsiest
-possible reasons. He just decides to leave the Church, turns back
-to booze, starts to cheat on his wife. You rack your brain and
-feel horribly guilty that it was some of your misbehavior towards
-him which send him on the wrong path. But there doesn’t seem to
-be any reason. So, you start some other members of your community
-they did something. You ask questions, offend some, hurt others,
-but in the end you still don’t know about any reason that the
-nonsense they told you before (if they are still talking to you).
-In the end it is a mystery or perhaps they just won’t tell you.
-Some people just leave.
+appropriate) together, and you believed you understand each
+other. And suddenly this person leaves your community for the
+flimsiest possible reasons. He just decides to leave the Church,
+turns back to booze, starts to cheat on his wife. You rack your
+brain and feel horribly guilty that it was some of your
+misbehaviour towards him which send him on the wrong path. But
+there doesn’t seem to be any reason. So, you start to suspect
+some other members of your community they did something. You ask
+questions, offend some, hurt others, but in the end you still
+don’t know about any reason that lead to the nonsense they told
+you before (if they are still talking to you). In the end it is
+a mystery or perhaps they just won’t tell you. Some people just
+leave.
There is certainly pain in that, but if you paint a picture of
some semi-religious experience (like Narnia), I do believe that
in order to be realistic, there should be somebody like Susan,
who just leaves. And it has absolutely nothing to do with her
being a girl, or sex and nylons. And yes, teenagers do stupid
-things which in the end hurt them, sometims a lot. I can tell,
+things which in the end hurt them, sometimes a lot. I can tell,
because I left in my fifteen my Scouting community, which was the
only real life-giving community I knew for a long time before and
after that, and I still don’t know exactly why I did it. And yes,