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Re: Subterfugitives (MOC Lego webcomic) has officially begun!
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lugnet.general
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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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