(urth) Slow Children at Play
JBarach at aol.com
JBarach at aol.com
Thu Sep 13 21:49:46 PDT 2007
In a message dated 9/13/2007 9:08:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
matthewalangroves at gmail.com writes:
But the story is definitely (but not only) a horror story. Reminds me
of Poe a little.
Yes ... but it's a horror story *from the point of view of the narrator*.
I'm not sure his point of view is correct. His point of view isn't, for
instance, the point of view of the "slow children" who are playing. Is it
possible that we are to see them as correct in their child-likeness and the scholar
Gene to be incorrect in his "adult"-ness, so that what strikes them as play
strikes him as horror and so that the griffin appears gracious to them, giving
what they don't deserve, but that, in spite of his graciousness, his
appearance terrifies Gene?
Why is Gene so afraid of griffins that he covers the name Griffith because
it's too close to "griffin"?
John
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