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The Dark Tower

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Postby Paul_Burgin » November 7th, 2006, 4:45 am

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Postby Paul_Burgin » November 8th, 2006, 9:32 am

Maybe having seen it as unfinished one only gets a partial picture of the story itself and therefore it's easier to spot light and shade within that particular piece of work, well in this case shade!
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Postby Dr. U » November 10th, 2006, 3:22 am

Although That Hideous Strength is fairly dark, I've always thought the whole idea of the "Head of the Institute" was a hysterically funny pun at the same time that it was very sinister. "You need to have an interview with the Head of the Institute". Yes, indeed. There's other clever things like that scattered through THS as well - even Wither's Pentagonian meanderings are so maddeningly meaningless, that they're funny at the same time that Lewis is painting a personality type we've probably all met who is not funny at all.


I said earlier in this particular forum that one evidence that The Dark Tower might be a real Lewis MS, albeit dropped by him, is its similarity to the novels of his friend Charles Williams. IMO, one contrary evidence - that TDT is not a real Lewis MS - is the lack of humor. Lewis seemed to slip ironies and funny little anachronisms and odd characters as seasoning in most of his stories, but TDT seemed, to me, unrelentingly an academic sub-culture and very, very serious, not much fun.
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Postby Stanley Anderson » November 10th, 2006, 2:26 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby jo » November 13th, 2006, 7:36 pm

"I saw it begin,” said the Lord Digory. “I did not think I would live to see it die"

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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » November 13th, 2006, 11:44 pm

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Postby Paul_Burgin » November 14th, 2006, 10:27 am

My problem with it is that, just as I started to find it riveting it came to it's unfinished end! :/
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Postby Biff » November 14th, 2006, 11:23 pm

"With hindsight perhaps it wasn't a good idea, oh well must be my hind cataracts..." Prof H.J. Farnsworth

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Postby alliebath » January 11th, 2007, 1:03 pm

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As a matter of interest, this is the ‘Dark Tower’ being built—Cambridge University Library, completed in the mid 1930s!

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This is what it looks like completed.

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Postby jo » January 15th, 2007, 2:40 pm

"I saw it begin,” said the Lord Digory. “I did not think I would live to see it die"

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Postby Stanley Anderson » January 15th, 2007, 3:10 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby alliebath » January 15th, 2007, 4:14 pm

I don’t know, it is at least brick and therefore ‘warmer’ than London University’s Senate House—which I remember well as a student—and which was used as the Ministry of Truth building in a version of 1984, I believe.

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Postby Biff » April 20th, 2007, 2:24 am

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