[UA] Parables, Archetypes and the yellow brick road

[Nick Wedig]

>> ewww. i feel all dirty and used. reminds me of when, as a 
>> kid, i started getting suspicious of the narnia books.
>>
>> ASLAN: I am a lion here, but in your world i am a lamb.
>> ME: Hey, wait a minute...
>
>But *that's* the *point*!
>
>Sheesh, it's like getting suspicious that DRACULA might be about
>vampires.

But Dracula is completely open about beings about vampires.  Everyone knows it, it's got a vampire on the cover and everyone's seen the movies.  But Narnia doesn't tell you "I'm a parable for Christianity" but rather gives you a nice fantasy world much like the Oz books or the Lord of the Rings, and a little kid doesn't expect or typically find out it's a religious parable until later.  (and don't bother suggesting the Lord of the Rings is some big metap[hor, it's just an example and could be replaced by fricking Harry Potter).

ObUA: um... so that's Aslan's some sort of True King, eh?

Mr. Teapot
struggling back on topic, failing

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