tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post3560086704326201897..comments2023-05-08T06:54:19.564-07:00Comments on Null Epistolary: Oh, Heck, let's try another!Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-57324931851083194692010-05-30T13:42:59.936-07:002010-05-30T13:42:59.936-07:00I love how he takes familiar Cambridge and turns i...I love how he takes familiar Cambridge and turns it into something so wildly new. It reminds me a little of the Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back, when Luke is hanging upside down over bottomlessness.Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-71395846380532917412010-05-30T06:02:41.640-07:002010-05-30T06:02:41.640-07:00Oh there's definitely an Innocent Smith. And ...Oh there's definitely an Innocent Smith. And the Warden is definitely there, too. And there's definitely silliness discovered, but it's much <i>more</i> than that! It's almost disingenuous the way you put it just there: "notices the reflections... then realises how <i>silly</i> <b>all of it is</b>."<br /><br />Of course, by opening with this "sceneretting" (Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-88409363986009357912010-05-30T00:54:29.148-07:002010-05-30T00:54:29.148-07:00+JMJ+
Do you make yourself deliberately obscure? ...+JMJ+<br /><br />Do you make yourself deliberately obscure? ;-)<br /><br />Isn't this Cambridge also the place where the protagonist notices the reflections of all the tall buildings in a shallow puddle and then realises how <i>silly</i> all of it is?<br /><br />Anyway, I'm starting to wonder whether Chesterton sweeps together scenery and props and just <i>calls</i> it setting.<br /><br /Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.com