Left Alone Ch3 Yay

[farla]

(Some) Collateral Damage. And again on Fanlib, where I amuse myself with lolcat opening graphics.

When I first decided she'd read the bible, I immediately thought of reading through it to find an appropriate passage for her to open to. Then I realized that was insane - what am I, a fundy? I went over and grabbed a random line off Biblegateway.

If the passage seems meaningful, if any of it seems to resonate or feel appropriate to what's happened, know this: it's arbitrary chance.

Comments

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Ha! And here I was reading and rereading that passage trying to figure out why you'd picked it. "God's mercy... Idolatry... Holy Communion... These verses don't seem to have much to do with EACH OTHER, let alone the story. What's up here?" Guess you got me. ^_^;;

Although this line did jump out at me: I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

And naturally Betty's Bible is formatted verse by verse.

[farla.livejournal.com]

And in any other story you'd have been right. It's like a conditioned reflex. Bible verse...okay, clearly there's deep meaning and/or major foreshadowing going on here, because BIBLE.

And yeah, I had a similar reaction. Biblegateway gave the verse, I went to the chapter and boggled for a bit, because what the hell is the guy going on about? (As it turns out, it's the same book that the rapture lines come from, which Adalia will interpret as Deep Meaning and God Trying To Contact Her. Because that's what our little monkey brains are designed to do - find connections between stuff, even if there actually aren't any.)

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Actually, I start thinking that way whenever a character reads any sort of literature that comes from somewhere other than the author's mind, whether it's scripture or poetry or whatever. When an author brings someone else's words into their work, it's usually either because they're incredibly lazy or else because those words are incredibly significant to the story at hand. Since I don't make a habit of reading lazy authors, I tend to assume it's the latter.

Your knack for subversion never ceases to delight me.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Normally, I suppose literature falls under the whole "Chekhov's gun" bit - if they take the time to point it out, it's important. Plus, no good author wants to risk a pepper jack cheese moment by including something just because it's a favorite of theirs, or sound like they severely misinterpreted the passage.

^^ But since her reading the bible is a plot-mandated thing, and since the subject matter is...well, the subject matter, I felt I could get away with something more random. Glad you liked it.