Into the Wardrobe

Just come to an interesting passage so thought I would put it down before I forget:

(about the eldila): "It was in a different place, and approaching their knowledge from the other side that they had discovered the state of Merlin: not from inspection of the things that slept under Bragdon Wood but from observing a certain unique configuration in that place where those things remain that are taken off time's mainroad, behind the invisible hedges, into the unimaginable fields. Not all the times that are outside the present are therefore past or future."

Reminds me rather of the ideas behind The Dark Tower .. what do people think?

It's very well done, if so :). There's lots of little references - to things like 'good brandy' etc - that appear in both and which have specially struck me, as I am reading both back to back.

I think I will start another thread about the forgery - I feel a bit guilty starting so many threads in here but what the hell, one more won't hurt I suppose - to get up a debate about it. Maybe with a nice poll.

That Hideous Strength is one of C. S. Lewis’s greatest novels but I didn't enjoy it very much the first four times I read until I saw that its five plots echo each other. Here is my plot diagram.



Let me know if you find it helpful.

As a newcomer, I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, but re: THS--has anybody discovered Arend Smilde's site that provides sources for allusions and quotations in That Hideous Strength (as well as several other Lewis works)? It is:

http://www.solcon.nl/arendsmilde/cslewi ... quotes.htm

If, on the other hand, this is common knowledge amongst Wardrobians, please do not hoot and jeer, lest I become dismayed.

I've never seen it but I know Arende Smilde posts here sometimes :)