Narnia (was Re: British Literature Characters)

[milztoday]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "nlpnt" <nlpnt at y...> wrote:
>    I could live with the kids being modern Californians (rumor I 
> heard) as long as Narnia looks like a sovreign nation in a parallel 
> universe rather than the back forty of some English country estate!

MODERN CALIFORNIANS!???!<gasp!> MODERN CALIFORNIANS??!

What will the White Witch tempt Edmund with....an X-Box??? More 
importantly would the children even be CALLED Peter, Susan, Edmund and 
Lucy? Oh dear...I can see it now: Jordan, Britney, Cody and Dakota. 
The Professor would be the next-door neighbor of their divorced 
father, who has them for the summer. Mrs. McCready would probably be 
their father's live-in girlfriend. The wardrobe won't contain four fur 
coats, but rather four ski jackets.... 


Milz, carefully listening to C.S. Lewis turning over in his grave!