I turned over my copy of The Screwtape Letters when I had finished reading it for the first time because I too wished to write a deeply outraged and deeply appreciative letter and I thought I remembered that the back of the book said which university Lewis taught at. It did. It also said, "He died in 1963." I was SO MAD. The nerve of him.
I am very much attached to That Hideous Strength despite its multitudinous horrors. The winter landscape Mark sees from the window of the train, the minutiae of Ransom's household, the descent of the planets. Anyway, Lewis is one of the few critics I'm aware of who practiced what he preached. In the essays in On Stories he tells one to do exactly the things he is doing in Perelandra. I read the essays as a teenager and thought, "It's easy for you to say that." But he did it, too.
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Date: 2013-01-18 09:40 pm (UTC)I am very much attached to That Hideous Strength despite its multitudinous horrors. The winter landscape Mark sees from the window of the train, the minutiae of Ransom's household, the descent of the planets. Anyway, Lewis is one of the few critics I'm aware of who practiced what he preached. In the essays in On Stories he tells one to do exactly the things he is doing in Perelandra. I read the essays as a teenager and thought, "It's easy for you to say that." But he did it, too.
P.