01-02-2018, 05:25 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Freiburg i. Brsg., Germany
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Tweaking children's literature a little...
Hello everybody,
and Happy New Year to all of you. During the last three days, I was reading The Night of Wishes: Or the Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion (German original title: Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch) by Michael Ende to my daughters. Apart from it being fun for everybody - my wife, too - and me learning that speaking in the raven Jakob's voice often is straining my vocal cords, I realized the following: The story very much can be read as the story of two servitors of Animals in their animal vessels trying to prevent two Sorcerers from creating a powerful potion/infernal relic. I'm just not sure if Cherub and Ofanite were the right Choirs... Maybe they're just relievers? That might explain their less-biased way of talking to Saint Sylvester, at least if he is serving Laurence, and not Yves. I don't know if the book is that well-known outside of Germany, but it definitely is worth a read, especially if you have - or are connected to - children between ages 6 to 13. Do you know any other children's literature, that can be read with an In Nomine-lens over it? Yours, M.
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01-06-2018, 01:13 PM | #2 | |
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: A couple stars shy of Neverland
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Re: Tweaking children's literature a little...
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Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series is meant for tweens and has some very good parallels. And I'll always throw John Masefield's The Box of Delights into a list like this. |
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01-08-2018, 08:18 PM | #3 |
Petitioner: Word of IN Filk
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Longmont, CO
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Re: Tweaking children's literature a little...
I'll throw in a classic -- in The Secret Garden, Dickon could possibly be a Servitor of Flowers in a young vessel, subtly helping Mary and Colin gain an appreciation for the Earth and each other. And Ben Weatherstaff could be a very old Soldier (or a crotchety Servitor himself) who knows Dickon and the little Servitor of Jordi who *seems* to be a small bird ....
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