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From: William Zame <zame>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:56:38 -0700
Renee Hoxie wrote:
Sometimes fantasy is so dark. The
The descriptive word I keep coming up with is joie de vie. There is so much joy and life in Harry and his friends they just spring off of the page. You feel the seriousness of the battle with good and evil without being weighed down by it--it's balanced out in these wonderful details of ordinary life slightly askew, like a girl's bathroom that is always out of order because of a crying ghost. Now all of us have had the experience of not enough girl's bathrooms or out of order bathrooms but a wailing watery ghost as cause!
Linda Goettina
Received on Fri 04 Jun 1999 03:56:38 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:56:38 -0700
Renee Hoxie wrote:
Sometimes fantasy is so dark. The
The descriptive word I keep coming up with is joie de vie. There is so much joy and life in Harry and his friends they just spring off of the page. You feel the seriousness of the battle with good and evil without being weighed down by it--it's balanced out in these wonderful details of ordinary life slightly askew, like a girl's bathroom that is always out of order because of a crying ghost. Now all of us have had the experience of not enough girl's bathrooms or out of order bathrooms but a wailing watery ghost as cause!
Linda Goettina
Received on Fri 04 Jun 1999 03:56:38 PM CDT
