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June 10, 2005
Rhetoric Final Paper
This Present Darkness - Or, Why Protestants Can't Write Fiction
The simple-mindedness of our beliefs therefore undermines the very foundation of good story-telling. We find image and beauty too hard to work for, and instead settle into laziness and delight in cheap thrills.
Posted by Davey at June 10, 2005 11:58 PM
Comments
Should a graphic novel never, ever make it into the Western Canon? That might perhaps discount a great deal of wonderful imagery, mightn't it? A great graphic "cell" can never be reduced. It can only be expanded. And the same goes for the stories that accompany them, as Miss O'Connor so deftly observes.
Posted by: Nathanael at September 29, 2005 01:01 PM