I remember how they took you down

[sovay]

I need to start writing things down again. I seem to have slid back into the state where I consider all my thought processes pointless. I am curious to try—not Twittering, but posting more of the stray ideas that cross my mind, writings that strike me, meme-answers that I owe friends from months back, just to see what I have at the end of the day. I'm sure a substantial amount of trivia, but probably not as much as I believe. Meanwhile, I am off to watch another batch of Avatar. This post brought to you by the thoughts Can anyone recommend novels by Charles Williams?, What I wouldn't have given to see Ernest Thesiger play Andrew Ketterley, and My God, I just cut my tongue on a cough drop.

Comments

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

When I read War in Heaven I had to get it out of my house afterwards.

[sovay]

When I read War in Heaven I had to get it out of my house afterwards.

Elaborate? My curiosity is based on seeing him classed with Sayers, Chesterton, Tolkien, Lewis, etc.; I'll take warning-offs as well as recommendations.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

He's very effective at creating an atmosphere of spiritual corruption (hi, Claudius!). However, I think he was less interested in conventional narrative than in exploring Christian believers' spiritual experience. That is, he's not like Tolkien in the same way that The Pilgrim's Progress is not like On the Road. If you don't share his views and read the books as straight fiction I think you would find them intriguing and sometimes memorable but ultimately unsatisfying.