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faustparody2021-11-03The devil, our culture, and our sinful nature all try to corrupt us. Our strictly human desires, even our best ones, can become twisted versions of themselves. But they too can be redeemed to something higher. Creatures of heaven will be greater than those of the garden. Elsewhere, Lewis wrote that “Love ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.”Unsanctified love leads us into a snare. Most of the world loves this way, Christ followers are not exempt. We make these transactional agreements with God in a way to use Him as a means to an end. But God has shown us a more excellent way. Do I love to be loved? Or I do love because I was first loved?
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faustparody2021-11-03I won’t spoil how the novel ends, mostly because I doubt I can do it justice; you may even disagree with my interpretations. But I will say that what I read on the last page changed the way I viewed the entire story. What I thought was going to be a tragedy turned into a story of redemption. Orual wasn’t an evil queen that needed to be punished, but instead, a daughter that needed to be redeemed.Redemption in its most literal sense means to be liberated from slavery. Orual’s controlling love may have been hurting her sister, but she was being suffocated under the weight of a bondage of her own making. She was enslaved. Always the victim of her own overriding passions. The Apostle Paul told us that “...you are slaves of the one whom you obey...” Her expectations perverted all the relation...
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faustparody2021-11-03Here we see the major theme of mis-identification. We think the god a demon. We also believed that Orual, our main character is heroic. In the narrative of our own lives, we always see ourselves as the hero. We wishfully believe that Providence is on our side and that we are justified in all that we do so long as it is in the name of love. After all, isn’t the main character always the hero? Every story tells us so. But as we read we see inside the mind of a girl desperately trying to control the ones she loves. What the book ultimately reveals is that it was Orual’s love for Psyche that was really going to devour them both.As I read the book, I started to feel sick to my stomach. Even now, years later, I can still feel it. I began to identify with poor Orual. I thought about my recent ...
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faustparody2021-11-03She takes up arms and embarks on what appears to be the heroic journey up the mountain. She will have to brave the elements and potentially face the dreaded and fabled Shadowbrute all in the hope that her sister still lives. But it’s here that the novel turns. When Orual arrives Psyche is indeed alive. The supposed brute turns out to instead be a benevolent god. Orual wants her sister to return with her, but to her horror, they are indeed wed, and Psyche views her heavenly husband not as captor but as savior. Psyche is originally perfectly content, but with some effort, Orual ends up manipulating Psyche into betraying her new husband. And the book proceeds to handle the fallout of their separation.
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库洛洛2012-07-08她说得那么沉着、富有哲理，好似我们正在梨树后与狐辩论，眼前还有数不清的的时辰、岁月。我们之间的离别，对她，仿佛算不了什么。
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库洛洛2012-07-08你是说，我可以……那么，即使死在路上也无妨。不会的，一旦我能下到海滨。那里有鲔鱼和橄榄。不，橄榄成熟的季节还没到哩。可是，那海港的味道，还有徘徊在市集上一面散步、一面聊天，认认真真地聊天。你们不会了解的，这纯粹是一种痴，一种你们无法体会的痴。我应该谢谢你，孩子。但是，你若曾爱过我，此刻，请别对我说什么。
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库洛洛2012-07-08这是我在人世中所能得到的最好的结局，比我向来企求的噩运好太多。我的一生其实是一片荒漠，谁敢奢望它早早结束？
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库洛洛2012-07-08你的确让我领教了一种我从未见识过的爱。那就像窥入一座幽暗的无底坑一样。这种爱是否比恨好，我实在不知道。噢，奥璐儿——你明知我对你的爱，明知它根深蒂固，不会因任何其他新起的爱而稍有减退，便利用它作工具、武器、策略和折磨人的刑具——我开始觉得自己从未了解过你。
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库洛洛2012-07-08你此刻所说的爱，我是一无所知。
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库洛洛2012-07-08入睡前和早上醒来的时刻最难捱（我通常醒得太早）——那数千个夜晚和早晨呵！有时我讶异着到底是谁带给人这种毫无意义的重复——永不休止的日夜更迭、季节邅递、年来年往；这岂不像一个蠢笨的小男孩吹口哨，不停地吹同一个调子，一次又一次，直到连你都奇怪他自己怎受得了？
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库洛洛2012-07-08谁会相信这种事，除非活得够久，求索得够苦，以致能了解一段多年来魂萦梦牵的激情会一夕间枯竭、凋萎。也许，在人的灵魂里，和在土壤中一样，那些长得色彩最鲜艳、香味最浓烈的，不一定最根深蒂固；也或许，年龄使然吧。近来，我被连拖带拉地见识了许多事物的本相，高处不胜寒，我所进入的那种巉崖、绝壁似的人生情境，是它无法适存的。它已发出臭味，变成一种啃蚀人心的欲求：贪恋一个人，自己不能给予任何东西，却渴望占有他全人。