The thing about the Narnia books, all of them, is that they're intimate.
Yes. And it's not that there aren't battles, but they are never the focus of the story. They happen in order to get to the next bit.
--the schoolgirl who tears off her shoes to follow Bacchus (am I remembering right? or was it the schoolteacher?)
That's the schoolgirl, I think; Gwendolen. It's the tired mathematics teacher whose unpleasant students all disappear in all the Dionysiac commotion (but they say afterward that some remarkably fine little pigs could be found in that part of the country). And the old woman who is dying, but Bacchus draws water from the well and it's wine when he hands it to her, and she jumps out of bed.
and battles with what look like the Pirates of the Caribbean in the Dark Dream Island.
. . . no.
What you (via hans_the_bold?) have to say about Disney's The Little Mermaid is fascinating.
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Yes. And it's not that there aren't battles, but they are never the focus of the story. They happen in order to get to the next bit.
--the schoolgirl who tears off her shoes to follow Bacchus (am I remembering right? or was it the schoolteacher?)
That's the schoolgirl, I think; Gwendolen. It's the tired mathematics teacher whose unpleasant students all disappear in all the Dionysiac commotion (but they say afterward that some remarkably fine little pigs could be found in that part of the country). And the old woman who is dying, but Bacchus draws water from the well and it's wine when he hands it to her, and she jumps out of bed.
and battles with what look like the Pirates of the Caribbean in the Dark Dream Island.
. . . no.
What you (via hans_the_bold?) have to say about Disney's The Little Mermaid is fascinating.
That's all Hans; I'm just relaying it.