Saturday, June 09, 2007
(10:25 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
An Idea for Acceptable.tv
An animated, chapter-by-chapter rendition of Augustine's Confessions. After the first episode, the format could be to spend one minute recapping the previous episode, do thirty seconds of "plot" development, and then spend the remaining minute asking what will happen next time? "Will Augustine remain firm in his faith in God's incorruptible nature? Will he find the cause of evil? [etc.] Find out, next time!"This would be fairly easy to do, because many of the chapters are already formatted exactly like that. Indeed, just as we can only fully understand Flaubert retrospectively from the standpoint of cinema, so also we can only fully understand Augustine's narrative art from the perspective of Acceptable.tv.
It would also be funny if all the characters in the series were anthropomorphic animals. What would Augustine be? Monica? (Well, I guess those two would have to be the same kind of animal.) Ambrose? Um... Augustine's friend who dies? Maybe they could all just be ducks.
