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The Sun Complex of Cain and Grendel
Summary: This essay points out there are no similarities between Cain of the Old Testament and Grendel from "Beowulf."
Everybody loves the sun. It gives us light, it gives us ever-clean solar energy, it gives us trees, therefore giving us oxygen. Yes, the sun is a good guy. One might love the sun so much, they might want to tilt their eyes heavenward and take a nice long look. It is very pretty, indeed, until it starts to burn their retinas. Before they know it, they end up blinded for the rest of their lives.
When a theory is paper-thin, there is a feverish attempt to strengthen it with bits of irrelevant information. A researcher will scout out tiny details in every bit of text, and each detail is stretched like canvas on a frame until they become farfetched and make a reader go, "Ow. My brain hurts." This is when the reader shuts off his or her brain to retaining any further information and leaving them...
This section contains 1,259 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) |