Vigen Guroian: Fairy Tales, Classical Learning, and The Moral Imagination
The Moral Imagination
The Different Kinds of Pinocchio
Friendship is to give kind of a little bit of insight into how you do the work. So let's talk about the Pinocchio story. You say that the contemporary children story writer Maurice Sendak judges Disney's Pinocchio is good in that his badness is only a matter of inexperience. And he dislikes Colote's Pinocchi because the puppet is born bad. But I think clearly you could see that the Disney one, maybe it's American innocent, I thought of it as a Protestant idea of justification versus the old one, which is very much Catholic Orthodox theology.
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