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From a recent conversation with my sister:
Tags: chats, family, funny, guinea pigs
Sarah-Jea
n: Hey Caleb I’ve started to litter train the guinea pigs
Good News: Moses visits the litter box regularly and sometimes poops in it
Bad News: He visits the litter box more often to eat poop
Sent at 3:13 PM on Monday
on September 11th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Hoo, boy, that one’s a grinner.
on October 10th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
“The problem of Susan” comes from The Last Battle, and specifically from an atheistic perspective. Basically, if you read Narnia without preimposing your own Christian mindset (where you’re going to Heaven and others are going to Hell), then it’s pretty darn disturbing to realize that Susan won’t go to Narnia when she dies because she likes “silk stockings and lipstick” too much and has forgotten Aslan.
This has resulted in at least one very disturbing Neil Gaiman short story, a number of slightly scarred children, and more significantly a slogan Pullman uses to vilanize the Narnia books, where he claims that Susan “had to choose between sex and God.” (Incidentally, J.K. Rowling never read The Last Battle, but has repeatedly repeated virtually the same phrase in interviews.)
In a complete Lewisian sense, and in the most natural interpretation of the text anyway, Susan chose to obsess with luxury and the latest fashion and turn away from joy, morality, and God. (I suppose the dominant dialog of our popular society sadly equates “luxury and the latest fashion” with sex, but only subconsciously.) But even without everyone’s favorite red herring, Susan’s apostasy remains the one aspect of the books where Lewis presents a Christian concept without really offering much in the way of explanation or beauty–it’s just there, and if you believe it’s there wrongly it really does up the “parental guidance factor” of the books.
on October 16th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Guinea pigs are stupid. I know. I baby sat one for a few months.
on October 17th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
They actually need to do that. Lots of small rodents like that have digestive tracts too short to deal with certian types of food in one try. So they egest “pellets” and then ingest them a second time to complete digestion.
(I know about this because my brother used to keep a guinea pig)
And, yes, that’s a bit gross.