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

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I read half a ton of Charles Williams because he was an Inkling, but I never managed to like any of them despite trying really hard. They had nightmarish imagery and implausible women and villains (but I repeat myself). Wonderful sentences, though.

I didn't much like his poetry either.

[sovay]

I didn't much like his poetry either.

For the same reasons or for different faults entirely?

[papersky.livejournal.com]

His poetry doesn't make sense. I really wanted to like Taliessin in Logres -- I mean how could anyone not like something called that? But I felt as if it was candyfloss, there was nothing there to bite on.

Also, having read what you said about That Hideous Strength, I have to say that Williams work is a lot like the things I liked least about THS, which is probably the book I like least out of all the books I actually own. I don't tend to keep books I dislike and don't intend to read again.

[sovay]

I really wanted to like Taliessin in Logres -- I mean how could anyone not like something called that? But I felt as if it was candyfloss, there was nothing there to bite on.

Bummer. I was also attracted by the title; same with The Region of the Summer Stars. I may still try him anyway, just to see if the language does it for me. But I consider myself warned.

I have to say that Williams work is a lot like the things I liked least about THS, which is probably the book I like least out of all the books I actually own.

And now I consider myself very warned.