From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Crowley, then ...
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:55:42 +0100


> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:33, James Jordan wrote:
>
 >                                                       I wanted to like
 > LB, but the ending horrified me. Instead of being glorified in any kind
of
 > way that I MYSELF would like to see, they were gradually and to me
 > horrifyingly reduced to mere archetypes, flat 2-dimensional playing
cards,
 > stript of all human depth, fated to eternal repetition.


This is, to me, an astonishing reaction, yet on reflection I can understand
it.   One of the notworthy things about LITTLE,BIG is that ultimately it
does not conceal or soften the traditional cruelty of Fairyland.


    hartshorn



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