Well you seem incapable of splianing it, but why don't you try? Consciousness of what? It seems like quite a few literary critics could make some extra spending money as Ice dancing judges, you can never be wrong, when by definition whatever you say is right. So far you've said you read it in a book and it tickled your fancy but no explanation as to how that could possibly relate to a passage about fear of punishment after death. Why don't you condescend to enlighten us oh most beneficent, and might I add, fabulously wealthy, one? Before you do however since Willie is not around to tell you wether you are right or wrong in your assessment, have a look at this from an essay by C.S. Lewis;
At first sight it is very convincing, (speaking of biblical criticism). I think I should be convinced of it myself, but I carry about with me a charm-the herb molly-against it. You must excuse me if I now speak for a while of myself. the value of what I say depends on it being first hand evidence.
What forearms me against all these reconstructions, is the fact that I have seen it all from the other end of the stick. I have watched reviewers reconstructing the genesis of my own books in just this way...........Now I must first record my impression; then, distinct from it, what I can say with certainty. My impression is that in the whole of my experience not one of these guesses has on any one point been right; that the method shows a record of 100 per cent failure. You would expect that by mere chance they would hit as often as they miss. But it is my impression that they do no such thing. I can't remember a single hit.
So to me, "I read it in a book by a very smart man" Is the equivalent of "My daddy told me". If you can't explain it in the context of the passage, it is in all likelihood B.S. |
