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re: Rereading THS
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March 28th, 2006, 6:10 pm
by jo
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?
Re: re: Rereading THS
Posted:
March 28th, 2006, 6:20 pm
by Stanley Anderson
re: Rereading THS
Posted:
March 28th, 2006, 6:31 pm
by jo
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.
Re: re: Rereading THS
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March 29th, 2006, 1:45 am
by Rosie Cotton
re: Rereading THS
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March 29th, 2006, 1:53 pm
by jo
re: Rereading THS
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March 30th, 2006, 1:51 am
by Rosie Cotton
re: Rereading THS
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March 30th, 2006, 3:26 pm
by Paul F. Ford
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.
re: Rereading THS
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March 30th, 2006, 7:00 pm
by Hnuff
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.
re: Rereading THS
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March 30th, 2006, 7:38 pm
by jo
I've never seen it but I know Arende Smilde posts here sometimes :)
re: Rereading THS
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March 31st, 2006, 3:16 am
by rusmeister
re: Rereading THS
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March 31st, 2006, 4:24 pm
by jo
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March 31st, 2006, 4:43 pm
by Monica
re: Rereading THS
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March 31st, 2006, 4:46 pm
by jo
re: Rereading THS
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March 31st, 2006, 4:46 pm
by jo
re: Rereading THS
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April 1st, 2006, 1:41 am
by Rosie Cotton