tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091980.post115474325897111157..comments2023-08-20T08:41:51.527-05:00Comments on At Home He's a Tourist: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091980.post-1155997336755438482006-08-19T09:22:00.000-05:002006-08-19T09:22:00.000-05:00I had to look up Godwin's Law; evidently I don't f...I had to look up Godwin's Law; evidently I don't frequent discussion boards enough. There needs to be a counterpart law which prohibits use of Mother Teresa as a paradigm of goodness.<BR/><BR/>I can't remember now whether Lewis first read <I>Worm</I> before or after converting to Christianity. He was a Christian by the time he read <I>Mistress of Mistresses</I>, though, and wrote to Eddison "as for yo~ hono~s metaphysick mistresses, beatificall <I>bona robas</I>, hyper-uranian whoores, and transcendentall trulls, not oonlie my complexious little delighteth in them but my ripe and more constant ivdgement reiecteth..." So his theology did influence his reaction to that Eddison book at least.Carloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13463900697710872788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091980.post-1155996224319944102006-08-19T09:03:00.000-05:002006-08-19T09:03:00.000-05:00Godwin's Law! I win!Seriously, though.... I suspe...Godwin's Law! I win!<BR/><BR/>Seriously, though.... I suspect that the Worm Ouroboros appealed to Lewis because of its similarity to the craggy northern sagas that he admired, as well as for its poetic, chantable recreation of Renaissance English.Felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02972873626450562217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091980.post-1155883738580527202006-08-18T01:48:00.000-05:002006-08-18T01:48:00.000-05:00I guess Hitler was passionate and unapologetic abo...I guess Hitler was passionate and unapologetic about his projects as well. But yeah, Lord Juss and company do have admirable traits, just that caritas and humilitas aren't among them. I find it somewhat surprising that Ouroborous was one of C. S. Lewis' favorite books, but since he was a scholar of Renaissance literature I imagine he was taken with Eddison's recreation of that prose style.Carloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13463900697710872788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091980.post-1155666981205373282006-08-15T13:36:00.000-05:002006-08-15T13:36:00.000-05:00Continuing my previous comment...The values system...Continuing my previous comment...<BR/><BR/>The values system depicted in The Worm Ouroborus may be distasteful to modern or Christian eyes, but its characters (primarily the four brothers of Demonland) at least have the virtue of being passionate and unapologetic about their pagan buccaneering ways.Felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02972873626450562217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091980.post-1155666561197204342006-08-15T13:29:00.000-05:002006-08-15T13:29:00.000-05:00I never did actually manage to read all the Chroni...I never did actually manage to read all the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. After getting a few chapters into the first one, I heartily hoped that someone would spit him on a spear. <BR/><BR/>It's pretty difficult to sympathize with a self-pitying rapist.Felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02972873626450562217noreply@blogger.com