Two scenes for most everyone

a_svirn a_svirn at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 5 00:02:12 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 144094

> Miles:
>I do not like "Lehrstücke", not communist ones and not moral
> ones. Even if we all had the same moral standards (which seems to 
be
> unlikely), I would rate literature of that kind as boring. I'm a 
grownup, I
> do not like being taught lessons ;).


Oh, there are didactics-free children's books and most boring, but 
*improving* tales for adults. And, as the Duchess from "Alice's 
adventures in Wonderland" was wont to say, `Everything's got a 
moral, if only you can find it.' But I strongly doubt that Rowling 
had poetic or "karmic" retributions in mind when she set about 
finding one for her books. To quote Carroll again, 
 
'Tis so,' said the Duchess:  `and the moral of that is--"Oh,
'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'

a_svirn 









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