...but who didn't resort to shoddy, one-dimensional pagan/Christian conflicts that bear little resemblance to history to drive their stories.
My beef precisely. And the society she constructs... It just doesn't happen that way, as far as anyone can tell. The actual process is much more interesting, in my opinion.
...For one thing, in the actual process you get really interesting folktales about Mary, as in Our Lady Mary, the Holy Mother. In some of them she steals stuff. *is juvenile* Mary as a Trickster figure amuses me a wee bit too much.
(And MoA Gwen is an incredibly unattractive character, and I'm not really all that fond of any of the other women either, though I maintain a fondness for the crippled bard who becomes the Merlin whose name I can never remember. I tried to reread it a little while back. Quickly gave up before the few moments of beauty I remembered were sullied forever.)
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Date: 2003-10-23 02:56 am (UTC)My beef precisely. And the society she constructs... It just doesn't happen that way, as far as anyone can tell. The actual process is much more interesting, in my opinion.
...For one thing, in the actual process you get really interesting folktales about Mary, as in Our Lady Mary, the Holy Mother. In some of them she steals stuff. *is juvenile* Mary as a Trickster figure amuses me a wee bit too much.
(And MoA Gwen is an incredibly unattractive character, and I'm not really all that fond of any of the other women either, though I maintain a fondness for the crippled bard who becomes the Merlin whose name I can never remember. I tried to reread it a little while back. Quickly gave up before the few moments of beauty I remembered were sullied forever.)