Anubhav comments on HPMOR: What could've been done better? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Anubhav 29 January 2012 06:20:09AM *  -1 points [-]

Specifically, I remember thinking that the idea that dementors were death was a bit cheesy. Taking a metaphor and making it corporeal seems to be a bit much to me.

Uh... That's hardly a new archetype.

For non-death examples, see every single god in Greek/Roman/Vedic mythology.

Comment author: RobertLumley 29 January 2012 01:46:28PM 1 point [-]

I didn't say it was new, I just said I didn't like it. :-) And in my (limited) experience in literature, such direct personification (where death is, in essence, a character) is most often found in genres like surrealist of postmodern literature, which I don't think Eliezer is going for.

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