[the_old_crowd] Religious Practice & Fantasy: Goat's Law

[Penny & Bryce]

Hi all --

First off, you can sign me up for HPfFootballFans --- I grew up here in Texas after all (my high school was the subject in fact of the feature film "Friday Night Lights" -- my sister's senior year in fact).  I'm much more of a college ball fan though -- don't follow the pro games all that much at all.  Hook 'em Horns!  <g>

Mike, I really like Goat's Law!!  I can't say that I've read much fantasy other than the authors you cite in your post (Lewis, Tolkien, Cooper and Pullman), but your theory sounds very plausible.  [okay, I confess, I haven't actually *read* Tolkien .... I keep getting bogged down about 1/3 through LOTR and I toss it all aside in frustration, but I loved the films.  Heh.]  

Seriously, I'm very impressed with your thoughts, and I had a "Aha!" or "Bingo!" moment as I read your post.  It just totally makes sense to me.  I definitely can see the inherent problems with transplanting an author's religious system into their fantasy secondary world.  I wish I had deep and profound thoughts to add or could play devil's advocate, but all I can do at the moment is bang a mug of butter-beer on the table and say "here, here."  

I also am very impressed and intrigued by David's post on faith earlier today, and I might be able to string together some coherent thoughts on that one tomorrow.  We took an *early* a.m. flight back from a weekend trip this morning, and my brain is very tired.  :--)  

Penny
(who is getting very, very excited about HBP ..........)



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