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Re: Subterfugitives (MOC Lego webcomic) has officially begun!
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Date: 
Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:16:47 GMT
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Parable = a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude
or a religious principle.

-Sarah

In lugnet.general, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
> In lugnet.general, Joel Kuester writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
> > > 
> > > I was reading through the first parable when it just "stopped".  It
> > > jumped right back to the opening screen leaving the story hanging
> > > at "the spider accepted the challenge".  Is a link busted?
> > 
> > Nope, that's how the first parable ends.  Since it is part of a larger
> > parable cycle, I figure people will generally 'grok' the setup. It doesn't
> > feel 'right' to me to add any sort of 'end' indicator because the story will
> > continue into the next parable.
> 
> Well, okay.  I guess it was just too "deep" for me then, because I
> really didn't get it.  It also seemed like there was a skip in the
> story with the reference to the man and the spider already knowing
> each other (but the man forgot).  But nothing more was said of it.
> Are all of the parables linked in any way?  i.e., same characters,
> extension of the same story, etc?  If they are, then maybe I
> won't get from this what I was looking for until they are all
> complete.  Is this being translated from another language?  Maybe
> something is just getting lost in the translation and/or culture
> shift.
> 
> I generally don't have much luck with anything not starting
> with "Long, long ago in a galaxy far away..."  Literature
> gets lost on me  ;]  Maybe I should just look up the definition
> of "parable".  If it says, "Forget trying to understand it,
> you'll just hurt yourself", then maybe I'm okay <G>
> 
> KDJ
> _______________________________________
> LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada



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  Re: Subterfugitives (MOC Lego webcomic) has officially begun!
 
(...) That explains why I don't get it then..., I don't get either of those ;] Probably just my being dense again..., either that or not reading it all in one quick stream messed it up. I was browsing other sites in between page loads. KDJ ___...___ (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)

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(...) Well, okay. I guess it was just too "deep" for me then, because I really didn't get it. It also seemed like there was a skip in the story with the reference to the man and the spider already knowing each other (but the man forgot). But nothing (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)

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