A is to B as B is to C, Morgan, Aslan and Not-Logic

[rthstewart]

I posted chapter 16, A is to B as B is to C.  You can find it here. 

A huge thanks to all of you who helped with this.  Some of the dialogue was really hard.  I hope it works for you.  Please let me know, one way or another.  There are a couple of really important scenes coming up but I found this was just getting too long, so I cut it here.  

Comments

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[lotl101.livejournal.com]

Realization I had just now: Aslan doesn't really mind that Morgan doesn't love Him because she does the same things that she would in his name, just out of her own goodness. It's like that old argument for atheism, that any God worth worshipping cares less about whether deeds are done in Their name, but more about the substance of those deeds. Which is exactly what Aslan says in TLB with the bit about good done in Tash's name is actually done in Aslan's name.

Sorry for incoherency, I'm currently on meds for an upper respiratory thing and a little loopy from it...

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

I hope you are feeling better! and yes, Aslan's OK with Morgan not loving him now. He knows he's going to be giving her a really raw deal and he did try to warn her. It is too late though and deep down she knows it. The language in that part of the chapter comes from TLB in Aslan's words to Emeth the Calormene, "I take to me the services which thou hast done to Tash. For I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him."

That is, in turn, taken from the Gospel of Matthew 25:40 which is the conclusion of the parable of the sheep and the goats: "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." (KJV).

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! I thought of Emeth in LB as soon as I read this chapter. Being the sort of person she is, Morgan can't help belonging to Aslan even though she does not acknowledge it and will not for a very long time.

Ilove this chapter--how you mix the difficult questions Morgan has to ask with the humour and love he Narnians feel for each other and Aslan. (Aslan thwacking Edmund and Morgan with his tail, when reprimanding them is just priceless.)

Then all this contrasts with the sombre aspect of dealing with Seth.

Thanks once again for this great continuing story and wonderful characters.

ClaireI