Comments on: Fiction: Dust to Dust

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:41:00 +0000

Having never read Kipling (I really am the worst English major ever), I don’t know if this is his version or Disney’s – but are you suggesting Paul was hypnotized by a snake? (Hey, did you check Genesis 3? Because that pesky serpent appears there, too.)

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:30:00 +0000

Haha. “Something like scales” fall from Saul’s eyes later in the chapter, so maybe that was seen as a reference to the snake?

By: lrburt

lrburt — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:41:09 +0000

Having never read Kipling (I really am the worst English major ever), I don't know if this is his version or Disney's – but are you suggesting Paul was hypnotized by a snake? (Hey, did you check Genesis 3? Because that pesky serpent appears there, too.)

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:30:05 +0000

Haha. “Something like scales” fall from Saul's eyes later in the chapter, so maybe that was seen as a reference to the snake?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:35:00 +0000

LOL Is there anything in Acts 9 about the Law of the Jungle?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:34:00 +0000

Thank you, Angela! This piece was kind of an exercise in writing place and carrying a motif, so I’m very pleased you think it worked! Hope you had fun at Panty’s. nnYou know, I don’t think I actually read On Writing all the way through. I should do that!

By: lrburt

lrburt — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:35:54 +0000

LOL Is there anything in Acts 9 about the Law of the Jungle?

By: lrburt

lrburt — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:34:51 +0000

Thank you, Angela! This piece was kind of an exercise in writing place and carrying a motif, so I'm very pleased you think it worked! Hope you had fun at Panty's.

You know, I don't think I actually read On Writing all the way through. I should do that!

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:48:02 +0000

Lisa, I enjoyed reading this story! The dust motif was interesting. I thought about it today when I went to J.C. Penney.

I've never read anything by King except for his On Writing, as well. I thought it was a really excellent book (should re-read it).

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:13:32 +0000

I like this. I've never read any King myself before, either, so I can't say one way or the other whether this sounds like him. However, I can say that evidently anything that uses enough biblical allusions or Christian language -- from an excerpt of C. S. Lewis' The Four Loves to a scholarly paper discussing the crossing of the Red Sea to my class project from "New Testament Narratives in Italian Painting" -- sounds like Dan Brown, according to that website. But if you go beyond allusions and put in entire biblical passages, you find that Acts 9 was written by Rudyard Kipling. Little known fact!

But that thing is kind of addicting. Here are some of the highlights based on random different things I've written:

Leo Tolstoy
David Foster Wallace
James Joyce
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
H. P. Lovecraft (sci-fi theme much?)
Dan Brown