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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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Charles Williams didn't write many novels so my advice is read them all. Except for the one about Zulus- which is as racist as you'd expect from a mid-century English guy who grew up reading Rider Haggard and had never been to Africa.

His characters are weak and his dialogue often impossible, but no-one ever wrote more convincingly about magick.

[sovay]

Except for the one about Zulus- which is as racist as you'd expect from a mid-century English guy who grew up reading Rider Haggard and had never been to Africa.

. . . ouch.

His characters are weak and his dialogue often impossible, but no-one ever wrote more convincingly about magick.

Then I should read him. Thank you.