by David » March 19th, 2006, 2:18 pm
Alas and alack, it sounded all too much like the swaths of feminist critic that as a literature instructor I've read through the years. Once I started to read a feminist critique of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Before I start I took out a card and said, "She'll say the following four things about it," and, sure enough, by the end of the article she had said the very four, tired, old, predictable feminist criticisms of the text. I think your statement (a joke yes) struck a chord because it reminded me of NZ critic Kath Filmer who wrote a very feminist-oriented book on Lewis called C. S. Lewis: the Mirror and the Mask. She incessant said the same sorts of things that you said (jokingly) about the Green Lady.
As for her being wise--you're right, she is not wise like a sage, wise woman, prophet or sybil. But she is so naturally good and in tune with physical and spiritual reality that a certain power akin to wisdom lodges in this.
The way, the weather, the terrain, the discipline, the leadership. --Sun Tzu