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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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12:37p - Many Waters - Madeleine L'Engle
I finished re-reading Many Waters again last night. It's one of my favourite books; I used to get it out again and again from the public library before I ever found my own copy. It is the 'third in the Time Quartet', which is the sort of chronological ordering that annoys me - it was written in 1986, the others in 1962, 1973, 1978 - they're all very spread out.
This is probably the most Christian of any of her kid's books - but then, it is a retelling of the story of Noah's Ark, when Sandy & Dennys mess with one of their father's tessering experiments and get transported back to Noah's time. I think it was less strange to read that when I was younger, and less pagan, and hadn't been studying geology at uni for two years. I have no difficulty accepting seraphim and nephilim and virtual unicorns.
It's more when one of the seraphim comments that this is a younger sun than what Sandy & Dennys are used to - and whilst strictly that's true, a few thousand years is a negligible timespan in the life of our sun. So the idea that the age of the sun would make a difference irks me.
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