Pondering
Posted by:
Ooktavia (---.nv.iinet.net.au)
Date: October 25, 2002 11:24AM
<HTML>So, last night, I could not sleep, due to people in the next room (do NOT ask)
And I found myself wondering, at 4am (apart form Can you beat people to death with a torch?), the following thing.....
Since, due to Mycroft's marvellous invention, one can enter any book, if the book you visit is not a work of fiction (the Stonk guidebook doesn't count, as it was one) are the people you meet like the really historical ones in the world of the book or are they the way the author imagined them?
Specifically, I am also thinking of works covering theology, or mentioning God, etc- if the author is also ommniscent within the book, does that mean the world of the book will have 2 Gods, the Author and the author's creation, or only one? If only one god, which?
How can the god withinn the book be created by an all-powerfull author, who is also in the book (like Wordsworth was??) Answers on a postcard, please!
At this point my brain melted, and I went to sleep.
Obviously this isn't relevant to Jasper's works as we all know he is a god, anyway......</HTML>