Narnia: tLtWatW • もう一回。

When you read a good book, read it again.

Later. Much later, after you've remembered it fondly so many times that you honestly have no idea how much of it you've actually forgotten.

Like old friends, it will open up to you again, new ideas will come; you will see so much more in it, and the story will begin to live, and breathe. Movies can do this, I think, but in much more limited fashion; they play so strongly on the senses perhaps that they leave so little to the meandering imagination; whereas books rely more on the overwhelmed memory, of word after word after word and meanings all running together from the play and interplay of letters arrogantly stamped with great resolve onto the page.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

The movie was good. But it changed a LOT. It surprises me just how much, as I go back and reread it; maybe it's the 4th time. Maybe it's the umpteenth. Doesn't matter. But the book is, of course, so much the richer; and in my mind, much less the preacher. At least, that is, about family relations; about Edmund being a jerk. The movie did more than fair justice, though, and I think it's retelling - mostly in time-saving abridgement, I must admit - still did well. It brings new insights into a seemingly simplistic story that is occasionallly locked into it's time by words or into the philosophical preaching of it's author.

On the whole, I'd say the adventure is much more clear in the book; the interrlations of the kids - especially with each other - is much more clear, and memorable, in the movie, where their personalites shine a little stronger through expressions and attitudes not word-for word mentioned in the original.

Anyway. Thought for the night as I head off to bed... rain, rain, all day rain; and probably again in the morning. I'm heading back up to 飯室の清和, way, way up north of 可部. Come morning I get to decide if I brave it again on the bike - first time in a good number of months - or let the rain excuse me, be lazy, and rush to catch the bus. :) Decisions, eh?