Post #4028374
2026-07-23 05:54 UTC
For you see, in My Dinner with André, André Gregory describes his own extreme lapses into unreality and they have a similar strange character. Visions that ought to be terrifying, he describes as whimsical and comforting.
You remember how Maenads and satyrs and Dionysos come rollicking through #Narnia, having a grand fun time breaking a bridge over a river, and it's kinda cool I guess (and I do respect and revere the Lord Bromios, very much, not the least because the great god Dionysos has helped me with my drinking habit) but it's way way too tame and twee. It doesn't help that Aslan is there, presumably making it all safe.
Jesus as a lion. Would he be safe?
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 05:58
Oh yes I know I know, "he's not a tame lion," you keep asserting. And that's the problem! Jack Lewis shouldn't need to keep saying it. It should echo through the writing, it should have gravitas. To put it another way, one shouldn't take the Lord's name in vain—Christian iconography needs to feel earned and not many artists can actually pull that off. That's why one of da Vinci-chan's angels seems real and why Neon Genesis Evangelion feels real while most Christian iconography is flimsy and tawdry. That's how Aslan feels in #Narnia. I've seen picture-books with more gravitas than anything in The Chronicles of Narnia. (cont'd)