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Wow...hadn't meant for that one post to get so long....(posted the Travis one before I'd finished the one prior to that - no way I wrote all that in six minutes! *g*) Gomen-nasai!

But yeah...had a bunch of other stuff I'd meant to write about here, too...might as well now, while I'm here...

Lessee... oh, yeah. Madeline L'Engel's Many Waters is *wonderful*... I'd actually avoided it for rather a long time. There was this book my mom got, years ago, that suggested books to read, gave little summary/reviews on them. Thing is, the book had a very Christian slant to it. Which was generally good. And they really liked the rest of L'Engel's stuff - so did (and do!) I. But Many Waters, they took issue with, saying that it blurred the line between Biblical truth and fiction too much. So, good little child that I was, I avoided it.
Saw it at the library the other day, figured that by now, I can sort out what I think is true and what's not true better than I could then, and I picked it up.
And it was great...and I can still see how they would've taken issue with it, but I enjoyed it a lot. And it was really cool, cos she actually used an idea that *I'd* picked up on awhile ago, and wanted to do something with. If you're reading in Genesis, the account of the Flood..there's a few brief sentances there that mention the sons of God laying with the daughters of Men. I stumbled across that awhile ago, and I was like, whoa, *what* was that?! ..cos that's *one* thing they never taught us in Sunday School--! And I sat and thought about that for awhile, and just found it a fascinating idea...just didn't know how to work it into a story or anything (yet).
And that was actually one of the main tenants in Many Waters, was the nephilim seducing the daughters of men.....
...*very*, very glad I *didn't* read it back then, tho - it gets a little too, ah, *blatant*, shall we say? for what my fifth-grade mind coulda handled, I think. (Remember, I was homeschooled at the time. Very, very sheltered. Not that I think this was bad, at all, looking back...)
But there were some incredible scenes in there, with the nephilim and seraphim...got a hang-up with angels and wings anyway....gave me some great ideas for drawings, tho, which I have sketched out...actually started drawing something from the story, then went off on another idea that somehow came to me, went into a manga-ish thing...*shrug*...be interesting to see if I can pull it off right (I doubt it, but..).

Ahh, enough for now....more later! ^_^

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