[HPforGrownups] Lit Crit: Ebony, Naama, Goat, Martin Gardner

[Aberforth's Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 7560

> I think that one way of appreciating the beauty of the patterns that
> nature creates is just to look at them, but another way is by
> understanding how the underlying causes created that pattern. Some
> people see more beauty by looking at the rainbow while understanding how
> white light is split into colors by a prism because of being different
> wavelengths.

Well put! Before spouting off at Naama, I should have mentioned that I munch
daisies on both sides of the fence in question. (Just as I should have
mentioned that I accept both the overwhelming narrative of determinism and
the silent narrative of free will--and have zero interest in harmonizing
them.) I like to take Beauty apart (using any sort of analytical tools at
hand), but I also like to enjoy it as a whole and play with it in my own
world.

BTW, psychoanalytical criticism fascinates me becuase it's a set of tools we
theologians aren't generally taught to use. Apparantly, they're pointy and
difficult to manage--and people are hesitant about turning us loose with
them in rooms full of costly, 2000-year-old cannonical furniture. So I *was*
hoping I'd get to try poking on Harry Potter a little ... <sniffs>

Baaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
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