Charles Williams: Un gigante literario británico
Uno de los hechos más significativos sobre Charles Williams es que fue un escritor, teólogo y crítico literario británico que pasó la mayor parte de su vida en Londres, pero en 1939 se mudó a Oxford con la editorial de la universidad para la que trabajó hasta su muerte en 1945. Este momento clave en su vida marc…
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https://akerix.com/on-this-day/05-15-charles-williams-escritor-britanico-1945
The confluence of powerful symbols is too much. Arsenic means a LOT to us, for very personal painful reasons. And Turkish Delight...is it not possible to guess that #CSLewis, groping for a symbol to instantly make Edmund look as disgusting as possible in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, remembered the device of the white-arsenic-dusted Turkish Delight (that was in fact not poisoned at all) from Sayers's Strong Poison?
Ugh. It must have been just too much some days, having to put up with the snobbery and supercilious sexism of a roomful of male British academics. She bounced off the #Inklings. How can anyone be shocked by that?
What's shocking is that the Inklings haven't been demystified yet. "Cancelled", as the kids now say. Well I will do it: under my temporary authority as the Pendragon, I cancel The Inklings literary circle. It's high time that merry band be broken up and scrutinized, because they have ended up a load-bearing part of contemporary fascism.
Inklings forum for discussion of #theology and #literature, after the fashion of the Oxford #Inklings, with a subforum for #writers to discuss their #WIP (works in progress)
https://khanya.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/inklings-forum-revived/
Ten years ago a group of us met in an Arcadia coffee shop to talk about literature and theology, perhaps after the manner of the Oxford Inklings. We decided to meet once a month, and did so until Covid put an end to such gatherings, and here is a record of our first meeting.
Two of the founding members, David Levey, of the English Department at Unisa, and Tony MacGregor, have since died (though not of Covid), so we haven't been able to revive it. It was an example of a "third space" gathering (the first two "spaces" being home and work).
#WritersCoffeeClub 3.1 — What is the fundamental goal you seek to achieve with your current WIP?
To follow C.S. Lewis's comment to J.R.R. Tolkien: if we want more of the kind of stories we like, we shall have to write them ourselves.
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Stephen Hayes
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen
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