in case you dont know, there is a really big and important story/ myth/ thing in chinese culture called JOURNEY TO THE WEST. it's one of the four classic novels of chinese literature. and it informs almost every method of storytelling used in chinese pop culture (i.e. comics, TV shows, movies, novels, etc). it's like the ILIAD and ODYSSEYand the BIBLE all rolled into one for chinese culture- it has power and influence on that level.
it's set in dynastic china, which is the crux of my argument. we dont have something like this in american culture. we have something close, but not quite. there will be more on this later. i promise. i've been wanting to write it for a long time now.
sooner or later, there will be a thing about atheism. why, you ask? because i want to talk about it. the fact that i'm an atheist doesn't hurt, either.
there will be a thing on comics. i love comics. yes i do. i love comics. how about you?!
and more likely than not, there will be more than one thing about violence in lit. it's my senior project, so deal.
[originally posted 8/16/06]
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