Hello to All, In the early hours I was dreaming over CW's truly beautiful poem 'Taliessin's Return to Logres' in 'Taliessin Through Logres': in particular I...
... I recall from notes to ... Actually my memory was faulty: on checking more carefully I note that the name for this constellation which Yeats gives in 'He...
Opinions here are varied on the Witch's explicit statement to Tumnus that Edmund betrayed him for sweeties. Is it just underlining what was implied in the...
In truth my expectations for the Disney film were sufficiently low that I ended up enjoying it a lot...as did my children. I read somewhere that P.L. Travers...
... Tolkien was very happy with Lewis's half of their joint mythopoeic brainstorm project, which was _Out of the Silent Planet_. He said it was that rare...
Some of you might be interested in Owen Barfield. There will be a conference on him organized by the German Inklings Gesellschaft. Perhaps some of you might...
One wants to check the text of the movie vs. that of the books, but, speaking abstractly: The characterization of one's actions by a wholly evil person ought...
Dear Nigel I am sure that the seven stars refer to the constellation Ursa Major, also known as Arthur's Wain,Charles's Wain (nicely self-referential) and by...
... But what is the point of going into all that when it was never part of the text, or even the subtext, in the first place? ... Not just establish, but...
... From: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert@...> To: <coinherence-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 9:09 PM Subject: [coinherence-l]...
John Reilly
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Jan 3, 2006 2:35 am
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... Oh, they do! read the page you posted. It is rather sad, but funny in a "black humour" kind of way. Williams apparently contaminated Lewis with the "highly...
The golden sickle of the Druids occurs elsewhere in the Teliessin poems - and at one point, I am sure, thoiugfh so far I haven't been able to locate it, it is...
R. Sturch
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It's always dangerous speculating about what Lewis or Williams might have said. But my guess that they might have said that nobody could be wholly evil,...
I think it was part of the subtext. The children are displaced and temporarily parentless in a dangerous world. Of course, the movie is a good deal more...
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Jan 4, 2006 12:39 am
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Hi The BBC's spoken word radio channel, BBC7, is currently serialising a reading of Perelandra. It is broadcast daily at 6pm and midnight GMT on BBC7, and is...
I found the bombing absolutely unnecessary, particularly the start, from the perspective of the German bomber pilots - I thought I was seeing a trailer for...
How do you portray holiness in a book, for that matter? One reason that The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was so attractive for me was that Aslan's identity...
... No, that is part of the set-up, not the subtext. If you think it is part of the subtext, then please point to specific passages in Lewis's book which...
The other place where the sickle occurs in the Taliessin poems is in The Calling of Arthur, line 27 (page 15 of the OUP edition). However, it is not here the...
<<No, that is part of the set-up, not the subtext. If you think it is part of the subtext, then please point to specific passages in Lewis's book which allude...
MillerJimE@...
Jan 5, 2006 7:52 am
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This is a query occasioned by a review of Brokeback Mountain I saw today. The reviewer stated that the story of Brokeback Mountain was like that of many...
MillerJimE@...
Jan 5, 2006 7:55 am
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Fair point. Even supposing that no one is irredeemable, Jadis would have to approach some sort of limit, in the fiction, as the corruptor and degrader of *two*...
Interesting. In terms of The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet (and Midsummers', a comedy with which it is often twinned), while it may be that 'love will conquer all'...
Romeo & Juliet's love and subsequent death does bring a sort of reconciliation between two warring families. The world does not wholly kill their love....
Damon DeLillo
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Jan 5, 2006 5:53 pm
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Interesting thoughts. The first thing that popped into my mind, was a memory of reading... I want to say "Romantic Theology" by Williams a number of years...
... In The Calling of Arthur the invasion of Britain is described, which Arthur is called to repell and the words appear "the South/ is up with hammer and...
Per Romeo and Juliet, Brokenback, etc -- If you look towards Shakespeare's output as a whole, one thing that seems interesting is the way the playwright...
<< Not to single out the situation in Brokeback, but is it possible that all these "tragedies of love", aside from any outside resitrictions their world ...
MillerJimE@...
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<<Which leaves a question to which we may never know the answer. Did Dante's wife find a certain quality lacking in her marriage, in her husband's affections,...
<< However, perhaps a question that might be worth looking at is the true name of "love". In these cases isn't this "thwarted love" eros? If it isn't we can...
