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.

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[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

"All Hallows' Eve" is probably the best of his books, according to me. They're all wildly uneven, but All Hallows' Eve has a large number of good parts. I should warn you that it has anti-Semitism and the sort of religious jingoism that didn't bother me in C. S. Lewis but does get on my nerves coming from Williams. However, the clever ideas and good lines are well-done enough that you might enjoy it nonetheless. If you do read it, I'd be interested to hear what you think.

There's one called "The Place of the Lion", where Platonic ideals of animals appear in a small town and menace the villagers. That one was kind of weak, but it had a nice feeling of a religious monster movie. Help! God is stalking the earth! He looks like a giant lion and some butterflies!

[sovay]

They're all wildly uneven, but All Hallows' Eve has a large number of good parts. I should warn you that it has anti-Semitism and the sort of religious jingoism that didn't bother me in C. S. Lewis but does get on my nerves coming from Williams.

Understood. Thanks for both the recommendation and the warning.

Help! God is stalking the earth! He looks like a giant lion and some butterflies!

I saw that one summarized on Wikipedia: I am considering it for the batshit value alone.