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diff --git a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york_02.rst b/faith/breakfast_in_new_york_02.rst index b7ab150..f69debd 100644 --- a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york_02.rst +++ b/faith/breakfast_in_new_york_02.rst @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ But more importantly, this whole explanation is completely wrong! Before I got to this awkward explanation, I was perfectly happy with Hermione and Harry forgetting themselves and having a one-night stand. Of course, not happy meaning I would support -them, but it made a story interesting. +their behaviour, but it made their story interesting. Explanation, why not-that-girl did this is exactly the main point of any literature! See the awesome short film “`The Saga Of @@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ leaving to the other end of the world (and she thinks permanently)? Why would he? What would they do afterwards, when the baby happens? -Where good people do bad things (think Graham Greene, if you want -to have a good Catholic writer) is exactly the place where +Where good people do bad things (think `Graham Greene`_, if you +want to have a good Catholic writer) is exactly the place where graphomania ends and literature may begin. “It was magic who did it!” is just a valiant attempt to avoid making good literature. @@ -107,12 +107,13 @@ second year, she drives herself to a breakdown in her third one. And when she is overcome by stress, loneliness, guilt (she did effectively enslave her parents, she, a founder of S.P.E.W.!), unfulfilled desire, and perhaps a bit of wine (of course, -Catholics must drink wine, not Scotch!) and sleeps with Harry, -when she finds later she is pregnant out of wedlock, she does the -same: being the overachiever, perfect student, perfect single -mother (and by God’s grace, she actually is). Fortunately, she is -Hermione Granger, so she has the brain to back up this drive, and -she manages to pull it off. +Catholics must drink wine, not Scotch!) and she sleeps with +Harry, from all that stress. And when she finds later she is +pregnant out of wedlock, she does the same: being the +overachiever, perfect student, perfect single mother (and by +God’s grace, she actually is). Fortunately, she is Hermione +Granger, so she has the brain to back up this drive, and she +manages to pull it off. Perhaps, you have another explanation, but anything is better than the Eros Syndrome. @@ -129,6 +130,9 @@ than the Eros Syndrome. .. _problem: {filename}one-more-anti-harmony.rst +.. _`Graham Greene`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_and_the_Glory + .. _`from point A to point B`: {filename}what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst |