tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post190071501884881306..comments2023-10-06T11:13:20.836-04:00Comments on Izgad: The Fantastic Faith of Guillermo del ToroIzgadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-63995927412719578662009-02-20T22:25:00.000-05:002009-02-20T22:25:00.000-05:00I'm impressed. When I left a comment on an old blo...I'm impressed. When I left a comment on an old blog entry I had every expectation that I would be ignored. As it is, I must say that I find myself agreeing with a great deal of what you have written in response to me. However, that makes me all the more inclined to let you know about the one thing I disagreed with:<BR/><BR/><I>Rather than allow his God to be besmirched by the association with a Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03323193561914080296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-46679069334729737522009-02-17T16:49:00.000-05:002009-02-17T16:49:00.000-05:00I am a big fan of both Pullman and Nietzsche. (The...I am a big fan of both Pullman and Nietzsche. (The fact that I refer to Pullman in the same sentence as Nietzsche should give you an idea of where I think His Dark Materials will and should come to stand in the canon of the great books of Western Literature.) I would compare Pullman to George Lucas in that he created a work of genius that he himself failed to properly appreciate out of his Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-24497870871825359512009-02-16T10:39:00.000-05:002009-02-16T10:39:00.000-05:00I know it's been a long time since you wrote this ...I know it's been a long time since you wrote this article, but I bumped into it because I am a huge del Toro fan.<BR/><BR/>When you were writing I couldn't help but think about Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Even Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" often uses bizarre imagery to promote a non-religious message. It seems to me that fantasy is just as able to point to a Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03323193561914080296noreply@blogger.com