If your skin's so thin you can't even handle me calling you 'Chucky', then maybe you shouldn't be on the internet.
>Incorrect. The Alice stories were an allegorical 'fairy-tale' of life's changes, both the physical and the emotional. It's themes had to do with the loss of childhood innocence and dealing with the chaotic nature of life, and her exploits were plotted to reflect those aspects. (Alice spends a great deal of time trying to make sense of the various riddles and contradictions of Wonderland.)
So, because my themes aren't absolutely identical, you insist I have none? Some of the themes in this story were dealing with an abusive parent, facing one's fears, making friends, learning that what someone enjoys sexuality doesn't define them as a person, learning to look beyond first impressions, dealing with coming out as gay, helping yourself by helping others, and learning to understand and accept when someone's been hurting you.
>Which is precisely what it is, since it focuses only upon scenarios that are sexually fetishist at heart, and does so in a way to dress it as a pleasant experience,
Well, duh. Sexual experiences do tend to be pleasant. If they weren't, no one would engage in them.
>I mean, if Hell is meant to be an eternal pit of punishments, why are the only ones represented sexual in nature? Where are theft, avarice, blasphemy, murder (Dante had several categories of murder represented), betrayal, etc. The slant is very obviously toward the sexual, defining it quite clearly as a fap story.
YOU DID NOT READ THIS STORY. A core idea here is that Hell is NOT an eternal pit of punishments. That Satan has changed things so that souls in Hell suffer only as much as they deserve to. Murderers and rapists are in lower levels than where Bartleby is.
>Of course, everything's 'okay' because the character 'reforms' or 'regenerates' afterward, but what does he really learn from the experience?
Not every last little thing in my story has a deep moral lesson. Y'ever heard of fun?
>I mean, what's the philosophy supposed to be in this story, that it's okay to be fucked up!?
YES. And that it's people like you, who condemn others who've done no wrong to you, who will face a harsher punishment than people whose sexuality harms no one.
>Since I haven't read it, I don't know and can't say; I can only speculate based on the tenets of good writing and the belief that King's publisher would never have let the scene fly if it didn't serve a specific literary purpose.
Here we come to the root of your problem. You're admitting that you haven't read something, yet you still arrogantly insist that you know better than I do. And I'VE read the damn thing! Twice! Alfador's right; that scene with the kids fucking in the sewer comes right out of left field and only barely makes sense. You're siding with King because he's a published author, and I'm just some furry on the internet. You're saying a book you haven't read has more literary merit than mine, which you didn't read either. Man, you just know everything. Let me give you an example: Several days ago I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said 'you're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air'. I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the
license plate said 'Fresh' and it had a dice in the mirror. If anything, I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought now forget it, 'Yo, home to Bel-Air!' I pulled up to a house about seven or eight, and I yelled to the cabby "Yo homes, smell you later'. Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.
>Off the bat, you're winning no friends here.
If your skin's so thin you can't even handle me calling you 'Chucky', then maybe you shouldn't be on the internet.
>Incorrect. The Alice stories were an allegorical 'fairy-tale' of life's changes, both the physical and the emotional. It's themes had to do with the loss of childhood innocence and dealing with the chaotic nature of life, and her exploits were plotted to reflect those aspects. (Alice spends a great deal of time trying to make sense of the various riddles and contradictions of Wonderland.)
So, because my themes aren't absolutely identical, you insist I have none? Some of the themes in this story were dealing with an abusive parent, facing one's fears, making friends, learning that what someone enjoys sexuality doesn't define them as a person, learning to look beyond first impressions, dealing with coming out as gay, helping yourself by helping others, and learning to understand and accept when someone's been hurting you.
>Which is precisely what it is, since it focuses only upon scenarios that are sexually fetishist at heart, and does so in a way to dress it as a pleasant experience,
Well, duh. Sexual experiences do tend to be pleasant. If they weren't, no one would engage in them.
>I mean, if Hell is meant to be an eternal pit of punishments, why are the only ones represented sexual in nature? Where are theft, avarice, blasphemy, murder (Dante had several categories of murder represented), betrayal, etc. The slant is very obviously toward the sexual, defining it quite clearly as a fap story.
YOU DID NOT READ THIS STORY. A core idea here is that Hell is NOT an eternal pit of punishments. That Satan has changed things so that souls in Hell suffer only as much as they deserve to. Murderers and rapists are in lower levels than where Bartleby is.
>Of course, everything's 'okay' because the character 'reforms' or 'regenerates' afterward, but what does he really learn from the experience?
Not every last little thing in my story has a deep moral lesson. Y'ever heard of fun?
>I mean, what's the philosophy supposed to be in this story, that it's okay to be fucked up!?
YES. And that it's people like you, who condemn others who've done no wrong to you, who will face a harsher punishment than people whose sexuality harms no one.
>Since I haven't read it, I don't know and can't say; I can only speculate based on the tenets of good writing and the belief that King's publisher would never have let the scene fly if it didn't serve a specific literary purpose.
Here we come to the root of your problem. You're admitting that you haven't read something, yet you still arrogantly insist that you know better than I do. And I'VE read the damn thing! Twice! Alfador's right; that scene with the kids fucking in the sewer comes right out of left field and only barely makes sense. You're siding with King because he's a published author, and I'm just some furry on the internet. You're saying a book you haven't read has more literary merit than mine, which you didn't read either. Man, you just know everything. Let me give you an example: Several days ago I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said 'you're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air'. I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the
license plate said 'Fresh' and it had a dice in the mirror. If anything, I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought now forget it, 'Yo, home to Bel-Air!' I pulled up to a house about seven or eight, and I yelled to the cabby "Yo homes, smell you later'. Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.
Pingas.