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Narnia December 11, 2005

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Friday Dan, Julie and I went to see Narnia in town. Its great, you should see it (and take any kids you have too). But its not really the movie that sparks this post. It was the audience… During the title sequence right after they flashed up Narnia in big letters and “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” below it, one of the high schoolers behind us asked her friends “Whats a wardrobe?” I managed to keep from laughing out loud but listenned in on the ensuing couple minute long conversation. The judges would have accepted “A piece of furnature that functions like a closet for hanging clothes”, they might have even accepted “all of your clothes”. After a few minutes of this discussion though the judges were disgusted enough that they accepted the last one’s attempt at defining it: “its like a large cabinet”.

It was a unique experience watching the movie with people (behind us) who had no concept of the stories. I believe it annoyed dan to no end in fact. I was more forgiving (of all but the wardrobe comment) citing an experience we’ve had with even more staggering ignorance. Some of you have heard this story, but I’m telling it again for the rest of you. Dan and I went to see Troy when it came out and the teenagers down the row from us were being well behaved and then… People came out of the wooden horse. At least one of the girls in the group gasped and another more or less made the above statement. Dan and I looked at each other in sheer shock, though not over what they were shocked about. We looked at them in horror, and then I started trying to muffle laughter. Is our education so atypical that we cannot even conceive not knowing the context of the phrase “Trojan horse”?

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1. hmm - 12/11/2005

Just returned from our trek to Narnia. Ah. Didn’t you love the tree on the outside of the wardrobe. It reminded me of an image I have from the Last Battle when they enter “heaven” and there is a tree bearing delicious fruit but if you stopped at the tree you would miss the true story. I was also thankful for having read the story and felt sorry for those who hadn’t.
Well done. Very true to the creator’s story.

Our world is begining to look very “Currier and Ives” again. Know what that means?

2. Aaron - 12/11/2005

Well I think I do Brain, but I don’t understand how Waterloo looks anything like Central Park.

3. hmmm - 12/14/2005

Just as the quiet woods of the Colorado Mountains with a fresh snow fall can be Narnia.