To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.build.ancientOpen lugnet.build.ancient in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Building / Ancient / 641
640  |  642
Subject: 
Re: The Brick Testament: A Family Stoned and a City Massacred
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.build.ancient
Followup-To: 
lugnet.off-topic.debate
Original-Followup-To: 

Date: 
Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:35:21 GMT
Viewed: 
4175 times
  
In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
The whole thing as in the Bible itself, or your whole version of the juicy bits?
Or both?

It's just that I find so much of the Bible to be "juicy", whether it's because
the stories are surprising, utterly outrageous, or just fun.  That book is just
loaded with good stuff.  There won't be very much, in the end, that I'll have
considered "too boring" to illustrate.

Anyway, illustrators can put a spin on things the same way a
politician can.

I won't arue with that, but I do think that it's a lot easier to spin the
stories when you completely put them in your own words, leaving parts out, and
adding parts not in the original, which is what every other illustrated Bible
I've ever seen does.

-Brendan



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: The Brick Testament: A Family Stoned and a City Massacred
 
(...) I agree with that assessment, but that still doesn't mean that you haven't put your own spin on things. Example (since that idiot reporter wanted to represent all of Lugnet with this particular episode): is there any part of the Bible that (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.ancient)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: The Brick Testament: A Family Stoned and a City Massacred
 
(...) It depends if you want to consider each and every point individually (which seems like a valid approach to me) or are trying to present an overall point that perhaps you have flogged to death already. Having said that, I'm not sure what real (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.ancient)

62 Messages in This Thread:



















Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR