I really don't intend to liveblog your fic back to you, but I'm on the first sentence of the third paragraph and already flipping out about how wonderful you are and how lovely it is to be your enabler, and I thought you should know that. Okay. Back to the story.
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I love this. I had never thought of the pagh as analogous to an immortal soul before, somehow, and I love watching Opaka try to work that out in the impossible position of an extreme situation for which her theology cannot, yet must, account. Her query of the equivalence between intelligence and pagh reminds me of reading Paul seriously for the first time and trying to understand the distinctions among his terms for all the things that are not flesh.
I love her devotion to liturgical time, even (especially) in a time and place where it makes the least sense, and love the simultaneity of deliberate thinking on vocation and just a touch of wry humor that is so very Opaka. I love that you gave her a space!Newman to comfort and provoke her. And the final line is perfect.
In short, I shall now dedicate some time to drawing hearts around this. Thank you! ♥
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regna
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Date: 2012-03-14 01:57 am (UTC)...
I love this. I had never thought of the pagh as analogous to an immortal soul before, somehow, and I love watching Opaka try to work that out in the impossible position of an extreme situation for which her theology cannot, yet must, account. Her query of the equivalence between intelligence and pagh reminds me of reading Paul seriously for the first time and trying to understand the distinctions among his terms for all the things that are not flesh.
I love her devotion to liturgical time, even (especially) in a time and place where it makes the least sense, and love the simultaneity of deliberate thinking on vocation and just a touch of wry humor that is so very Opaka. I love that you gave her a space!Newman to comfort and provoke her. And the final line is perfect.
In short, I shall now dedicate some time to drawing hearts around this. Thank you! ♥