satisfied---
"Yes," he said, "I know that's what everyone says it's about. And it's a lovely analogy. But that is not what the story is about. Story and analogy are not the same thing, and if you get them mixed up I guarantee you will see Fs on your essays. There's the surface level, and there's what's beneath, and both--" He pointed the corner of the book at them. "--are equally important. These authors are tricky bastards. If you spend all your time mooning over metaphors, you're apt to miss what's under your nose."
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Which has everything and nothing to do with the novel itself all at the same time. Teehee. And I think he and I need to have a talk about the overuse of emphasis italics.
But none of you are really interested in this anyway, because you're all too busy reading Harry Potter. :P
mlc <--who hasn't even read GoF, because it's the playfulness of the first three that she likes, dammit, so if it's going to get grown-up she'll just ignore the rest (plus she was peeved by the end of PoA, but that is another story)
