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Louisa 2022-03-22 09:02:53

- What are you doing, come back soon. This is the place of suffering.
-suffering? What's the meaning.
- Just come back. It's too dangerous there.
- Certainly not more dangerous than climbing a big oak tree.
- This is the lair of dark creatures.
- Krumkuruk?
- (nods)
- But Krumkuruk is a fiction. Fiction should not be feared, says the abbot of Kells.
- That's not fictional. It just waits in the dark, waiting for those who go astray.

Excerpted from The Secret of the Book of Kells

So we should believe, or fear, all fictional gods.

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Extended Reading
  • Brandt 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    Like a long scroll of wall paintings from Egypt, a siege of the city is full of tension, but the director's naive story is weak and ultimately can't take away my 5th star

  • Hailey 2022-03-01 08:01:52

    5 stars for picture music, 3 stars for plot

The Secret of Kells quotes

  • Aisling: [interrupting him] Is this your cat?

    [Brendan screams and falls off rock]

    Aisling: Well?

    Brendan: I've heard about... creatures like you. You're a fairy!

    [Aisling gives Pangur Ban a dubious look]

    Aisling: What are you doing in my forest? You've come to spoil it, haven't you?

    Brendan: Uh...

    Aisling: [accusingly] You were probably sent here by your family to get food, weren't you? Well. You can go right back where you came from. If you don't, I'll make the wolves get you. *Rawr!*

    Brendan: No! uh, I didn't mean to. Look, I'm sorry alright? I'm not here to get food for my family. I'm here to get things to make ink. I don't have a family, and we have food in Kells. So I wouldn't come here for it anyway. I was just... a bit lost.

    Aisling: You have no family?

    Brendan: Uh, no.

    Aisling: No mother?

    [Brendan looks down. Aisling bows her head]

    Aisling: I'm alone too.

  • Aisling: Open your eyes and I'll tell you my name.

    [Brendan opens them]

    Aisling: Aisling.

    Brendan: Aisling.

    Aisling: And this... is my forest.