I re-read this post again today. I love it. It sums up completely every reason why I don't want to go to war. AND YET Lord of the Rings and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe came from experiences in a war. All the way back to the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Beowulf, men's writing has been spawned by war. It is bigger than the author/narrator/characters, and yet intensely personal. It increases the stakes of any actions, and it makes everything more important somehow.
I almost feel like I'm missing out.
I know how you feel. I keep wishing I was part of something epic. Then I realize that I am-- and it's even bigger than LOTR, the Odyssey, or Beowulf.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if that helps. Sometimes it doesn't even help me... but there it is.
That was a great post. So great, in fact, that apparently I posted two almost-identical comments. I just deleted one...
ReplyDeleteI agree with Janelle. We are part of something bigger than any of those, although it sometimes doesn't feel like it.
Still, war is kind of a Man thing. Religious struggle is a Universal Man thing.
ReplyDeleteYou have a point there. Let's start a war-- or, well, at least the next best thing. I'll go first.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you want? Don't give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!
I hope you come back as a flea-infested camel in your next life!
ReplyDeleteThat would be a step up for you, you cheese-breathed insulter of other people's mothers! I laugh in your general direction!
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