[UA] Re: UA digest, Vol 1 #399 - 21 msgs

[Rick Neal]

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> From: "Timothy Ferguson" <ferguson at beyond.net.au>
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> Subject: Re: [UA] Promethea
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 12:33:15 +1000
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Neal" <grendel at mb.sympatico.ca>
> To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 3:25 AM
> Subject: [UA] Promethea
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> 
>> Greetings, all.
>> 
>> Just out of curiosity, anyone on the list besides me reading the Alan
> Moore
>> comic series Promethea, out of ABC?
> 
> I am.
> 
>> What is everyone (or anyone) else's opinion on this?
> 
> Preaches his own theology too much, and lets it bog his story down in stuff
> which is important for the author to convey, but is trivial for the reader.
> 

Hunh. I'm not too familiar (read: not familiar at all, beyond rumour) with
Alan Moore's theology, so I'll have to take your word for it. I kind of like
the way he very carefully builds and explains the chain of symbolism he's
using, making reference to the standard ideas in Western esoteric thought.
While it does make it a little long on exposition at times, I find the
lessons in developing symbolism to tie the mundane to the supernatural
useful for doing the same sorts of things in my UA game. I take it that Alan
Moore is into some form of Western Pagan religion, and that he's drawing on
that as a source for Promethea?

Rick Neal


If the Fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise.

Blake, Proverbs of Hell


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