Character & World

MarkTheHerald.com ✦ The Herald Dispatch ✦ There is a phrase at the center of MARK! The Herald Angel that I want to spend some time with today, because I think it carries more theological weight than it might initially appear to. That phrase is "fair dinkum." For the uninitiated: fair dinkum is Australian slang meaning genuine, true, authentic, the real deal. It functions as both adjective and emphatic exclamation. A fair dinkum story is a genuinely true story. A fair dink

MarkTheHerald.com ✦ The Herald Dispatch ✦ Every story lives or dies by the reality of its world. Not reality in the sense of factual accuracy — fiction is fiction, and the rules of fiction are different from the rules of journalism — but reality in the sense of internal consistency, specific detail, and the feeling that the world you're reading about existed before you arrived and will continue existing after you leave. The world of MARK! The Herald Angel is called Paradi