Ramblings on Librarianship, Technology, and Academia

I think we are all developing readers, right? I think my first childhood moment of discomfort with the structures was when I was a child reading Narnia for the first time, got to the end of VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TRADER, and there's that whole bit where Aslan shows up as a lamb and says "you know me by another name in your world." While I had no particular problem with the Christian metaphors once I learned about them, I had a real problem as a child ignorant of Christian tropes reading a book in which lack of ignorance was an assumption for any reader. It might be the first time I thought "hey, this isn't cool," but I remember flipping back and forth trying to figure out in which book we had been introduced to Aslan by another name, and what was up with the whole lamb business. It was a scene that explicitly excluded me as a child reader.