Author: Sandi Ordinario
Date: 09:28:21 04/07/03
In answer to one of your posts about Nabokov, after I quoted what could have been a famous quote for perversions. You said that that is why i had a propensity for young(er) women (my paraphrase of course) is out in left field of course. I will give you a background of my reading of Lolita. I was 16 working for a bachelor's degree in engineering in Manila. Two of my cousins, Rachel and Ruth were studying in the University of the Philippines and knowing that i could do literary criticism fairly well, asked me to read a novel for them and write a criticism. The most popular book at that time was Lolita. So I read it, wrote the criticism and gave it to them to submit to their respective professors in English. They each got a 1. As explained by Thorsten in one of his posts our grading in the RP as in Germany, at that time was 1 is excellent while 5 is failure following a descending scale from excellence. Well if your assertion is right, why is it that since boyhood I had been reading DC Comics until its bankcruptcy and have not learned to physically fly or look beyond walls or even become affected adversely by kryptonite? If you read 4 chapters of the Good Book a day, you would finish it in a year. This i had been doing since i was 22 after a spiritual experience that shattered my delusions of being dyed-in-the-wool agnostic. But that is another story. If i was going to quote YHWH by saying, "...I have tested you at the bitter waters of Meribah..." does that make me God or god-like? I think it would not even guarantee my becoming godly in the least. We cannot change or sinful nature by ourselves by works, not even observing the 10 commandments which is also a form of works. It would take faith in the sacrifice of the Son of God to reconcile us back to the Family of God. Nothing else not even intercession of the priestly class. Only by grace, God's love gift to very few takers. I guess Paul says only those predestined, another sticky subject, I won't yet discuss until I hear Matthew Hull's point of view. Or perhaps if I quoted from the Gospel of John and say, "Love one another as I have loved you." Would this make me develop attributes of Jesus? No. It would only show that I have read the Book so much I can quote verses from memory nothing else. So your assertion does not hold water. Ciao, sandi
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