tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post1411046869640333990..comments2024-03-14T09:31:24.792-04:00Comments on TORONTO CATHOLIC WITNESS: The Adventures of Fr. Aidan McNutty: Freddy the FabricatorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-38439994596923707572013-02-02T18:21:28.505-05:002013-02-02T18:21:28.505-05:00Disclaimer: if any character resembles Freyr it is...Disclaimer: if any character resembles Freyr it is strictly coincidence. Baronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265555388172261643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-66221022209047343262013-02-01T12:25:22.470-05:002013-02-01T12:25:22.470-05:00This is neither lighthearted nor entertainment. It...This is neither lighthearted nor entertainment. It is a thinly disguised narrative which would have to be defended or refuted in specific terms were it published as fact. Publishing it as fiction merely allows you to shrug your shoulders and claim that it is only a story should anyone ask. As it is, it can be passed off with a wink and a nod to "those in the know". You might as well Freyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01706221683777453812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-56607134717947292572013-01-31T18:24:03.168-05:002013-01-31T18:24:03.168-05:00Reading it I could not help thinking of Father Lui...Reading it I could not help thinking of Father Luigi Villa who just passed away in November and would not have found your fiction as fiction. A decade ago he published Pope Paul VI, Beatified? It stopped the effort. He died in November 2012, the effort has been restored.<br /><br />More please.Toronto Traditional Mass Society https://www.blogger.com/profile/12319299766530507293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-85783403350356202402013-01-30T06:54:26.116-05:002013-01-30T06:54:26.116-05:00The story is meant as lighthearted entertainment o...The story is meant as lighthearted entertainment only. Fleshing out is, I suppose a matter of opinion. I do hope your nose is not too sore...Baronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265555388172261643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-31399324384012035422013-01-29T22:25:12.338-05:002013-01-29T22:25:12.338-05:00While we are on about your story and I am not quit...While we are on about your story and I am not quite ready for bed...<br />One of the difficulties with it is that you lead the reader about by the nose, telling him what to think about these characters. They come off a little flat. If instead you fleshed out these characters and allowed the reader to draw his own conclusions the piece might be a bit more powerful. Freyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01706221683777453812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-1549900324960412532013-01-29T22:07:46.959-05:002013-01-29T22:07:46.959-05:00Bernays and the manipulators of public opinion are...Bernays and the manipulators of public opinion are quite correct... their techniques work. To what extent are these techniques morally permissible? No one seems to want to grapple with this question. For me, the deliberate appeal to a person's emotions and subconscious to the exclusion of reason is quite dangerous. As for the story, every story allows the hearer to read their own experience Freyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01706221683777453812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-69609064966373869402013-01-29T20:39:43.658-05:002013-01-29T20:39:43.658-05:00Ah, but the real facts preceded the real story. It...Ah, but the real facts preceded the real story. It was - for example - the French bishops who suppressed the old Ordo with moral violence... and so on. This story - humorously (hopefully) reflects reality. <br /><br />Actually, by arguing your position - as framed - you have become an unwitting disciple of Bernays aussi. Baronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265555388172261643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-57698822358834234342013-01-29T18:58:58.123-05:002013-01-29T18:58:58.123-05:00The story precedes the facts... agree on a narrati...The story precedes the facts... agree on a narrative and the facts will take care of themselves. Rolf Hochhuth and Eddie Bernays would be proud of you.Freyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01706221683777453812noreply@blogger.com