Well that's a compliment and a half! Thank you! :) You're most welcome.
Oh I wouldn't be surprised, there were a LOT of great thinkers around since forever. (C.S.Lewis certainly doesn't claim the idea as his own, he just uses it as an example.) Just goes to show, I guess, that the human brain has been wired in the same way for a very long time. I rather like Medieval lit as proof of the basic continuity of human nature: mostly sex and violence, big helpings of religious and political fundamentalism, occasional moments of transcendence, and every once in a long while, a little prototypical Relativity Theory. Mmmmm.
Why does that not surprise me? ;) Heh. One of my friends is getting a Masters in Theology out at Berkeley. I'm rather tempted to join her.
They were my first proper 'ship, and I think they imprinted on me. (Well my very first ship was probably Peter Wimsey/Harriet, but you know - same dynamic.) Mine was Princess Leia and Han Solo. I liked the banter and, I presume, the equality, although my twelve year old mind would probably not have quite formulated it that way. (Who are Peter Wimsey and Harriet?)
*nods* And, of course, once you've introduced time travel, there is always the possibility of re-writing time, of getting out of the loop. They choose not to do that, but they *could*. (Of course then we get all kinds of timey-wimey-ness problems, but it's only a closed system because they obey their own rules. Yes! Nothing to stop one person or the other from hopping off their end of the see-saw and sending the whole system crashing down, but you usually try not to do that to people you like.
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You're most welcome.
Oh I wouldn't be surprised, there were a LOT of great thinkers around since forever. (C.S.Lewis certainly doesn't claim the idea as his own, he just uses it as an example.)
Just goes to show, I guess, that the human brain has been wired in the same way for a very long time. I rather like Medieval lit as proof of the basic continuity of human nature: mostly sex and violence, big helpings of religious and political fundamentalism, occasional moments of transcendence, and every once in a long while, a little prototypical Relativity Theory. Mmmmm.
Why does that not surprise me? ;)
Heh. One of my friends is getting a Masters in Theology out at Berkeley. I'm rather tempted to join her.
They were my first proper 'ship, and I think they imprinted on me. (Well my very first ship was probably Peter Wimsey/Harriet, but you know - same dynamic.)
Mine was Princess Leia and Han Solo. I liked the banter and, I presume, the equality, although my twelve year old mind would probably not have quite formulated it that way. (Who are Peter Wimsey and Harriet?)
*nods* And, of course, once you've introduced time travel, there is always the possibility of re-writing time, of getting out of the loop. They choose not to do that, but they *could*. (Of course then we get all kinds of timey-wimey-ness problems, but it's only a closed system because they obey their own rules.
Yes! Nothing to stop one person or the other from hopping off their end of the see-saw and sending the whole system crashing down, but you usually try not to do that to people you like.