recovering economist
Much like The Lion King is the story of Hamlet, Karate Kid is the story of Jesus.
Honestly, I never even thought about his bruised heel and the imagery of the snake. đł
And all of it even fits into the classical story format.
Even for stories, I suppose Ecclesiastes 1:9 has it right:
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
I think, if I think about it, most writers have a single set of ideas that they hover around.
They poke and prod and push these ideas around their entire lives.
The job of writing then becomes finding original ways of restating these themes in a way that has some kind of appeal.
Larry McMurtry wrote about change, the passing of the old to the new, through the prism of the west. He did this with both fiction and non-fiction and wrote stories of the past, as well as the present.
C.S. Lews wrote about (Christian) purpose and adventure. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction too, for adults, as well as children.
Heck, this blog is only (really) about a few things too.
As was typical of Lewisâhis friend Owen Barfield once commented that âwhat he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anythingââhe was, just as the warâs momentum permanently shifted, working out a single set of ideas in multiple genres and for multiple audiences. It is therefore helpful to explore The Abolition of Man in conjunction with these other texts that are so closely related to it. And the one that makes the key argument most pointedly is English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama.
-Alan Jacobs, The Year Of Our Lord 1943 (Amazon)