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anotherusedpage ([personal profile] anotherusedpage) wrote2003-11-07 07:22 pm

Hmmm

Am supposed to be reading Lady Audeley's Secret for my next essay. Unfortunately, have just been lent a copy of Fool's Fate, and am SOOOOOO not going to be able to resist the mist.

.... Which is a Farscape quote, isn't it? I've never seen farscape, it's a quote I've picked up off a mate.

In other news, the Law students of the Oxford Tolkein Society put Sauron on trial for War Crimes and Genocide. And he was acquitted. On the argument of 'It wasn't me, guv, it was those nasty orcs'.

[identity profile] lucy-lupin.livejournal.com 2003-11-08 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
That's like saying Hitler wasn't responsible for Nazi war crimes during WWII.

I also read about a debate one university had on which was the most moral out of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. LOTR won out on the verdict that while the characters in Tolkien's book have a very set moral code to follow, in HP anything goes (cheating, lying, breaking school rules, etc) so long as it's against Voldemort.

What is Lady Audeley's Secret about? The name rings a bell.

[identity profile] anotherusedpage.livejournal.com 2003-11-08 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
... not sure. Haven't read it yet.

It's Victorian Sensation Fiction by M. Braddon, if that helps. It's... sort of watered down sex and murder scandal.

As for Hitler getting off the war crimes thing - I think that there's been precidence of something similar in the real human rights courts. I dunno what exactly, but....