Arthur and Kevin's Nellorat ([info]nellorat) wrote,
@ 2008-07-25 21:15:00
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Guest at Mythcon
It seems I may be a special guest at the upcoming Mythcon in Connecticut which is really cool. That honor was almost not in the cards, as I misunderstood an e-mail asking me many months ago (I thought it was just asking casually if I'd present a paper) & then my paper proposal e-mail was lost in April. I just e-mailed to ask why I hadn't heard about the paper and found everything out, almost but not quite too late. I'm being inconvenient, which I regret & have apologized for, but would still love the participation and the honor. I have only six published pieces on Williams (and one on C. S. Lewis), but that makes me a more-than-minor Williams scholar, sadly enough.

Also, after not exercising for two days--for good reasons, overwork and a desperately sore neck--I did tread tonight for 16 minutes. I'd been up to 25, but with a small symphony of physical complaints, 16 seemed not bad. Tomorrow. Every day.

Mood: physically sore, gratified & happy overall


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[info]men_in_full
2008-07-26 01:37 am UTC (link)
I haven't read as much of Charles Williams as I have of CS Lewis, but love both. Strange coincidence; I was just re-reading some of Humphrey Carter's The Inklings over lunch; Carter thinks that Williams' reactions to DH Lawrence, for instance, were far more subtle and well-thought out than Lewis's (apparently Lewis just dismissed Lawrence out of hand.)

I hope you are able to present your paper; it sounds fascinating.

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[info]calimac
2008-07-27 02:18 am UTC (link)
Lewis had a general allergic aversion to 20th century high modernism. He considered himself a man quite out of his times, and was happier with pre-Romantic literature. At least he wasn't Tolkien, who though he read SF and Edwardian adventure stories, considered that capital-L Literature came to an end with Chaucer or thereabouts.

If Williams was more normal than his friends in this regard, it was perhaps the only way. Williams was a deeply eccentric individual.

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[info]nellorat
2008-07-27 01:21 pm UTC (link)
I could also see Williams being more open to the importance Lawrence gives sex in his work.

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[info]enegim
2008-07-27 04:39 pm UTC (link)
Yes indeed. Though I wonder whether Lewis might have been more open after his marriage--I'm thinking of the place where he talks about his comments on sex in The Four Loves, which are quite different from his earlier thought (and apparently shocked some of his fans).

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[info]calimac
2008-07-28 01:11 pm UTC (link)
At the Dead Inklings panel we had at Mythcon one year, CSL and Tolkien were gently ribbing Williams for the sex imagery in the Taliesin poems, and Williams defended it by saying, "Sex is an important part of life, isn't it?"

And Warnie Lewis replied mournfully, "I wouldn't know."

That was the best line on the panel, rendered even funnier by the fact that Warnie (lifelong bachelor, confessedly terrified of women) was being played by [info]sturgeonslawyer (married, two kids).

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[info]browngirl
2008-07-26 02:14 am UTC (link)
Hey, congratulations!

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[info]calimac
2008-07-27 02:15 am UTC (link)
Hey, congratulations! I didn't know the committee had done this, though I'd certainly waved your name in their direction as a person it would be wise to have around. So we shall definitely see you there.

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[info]enegim
2008-07-27 04:41 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations! That is cool. R. and I are going to try to make it to Mythcon, though as always that depends on how much I've gotten written. (Could you call or email me re that? I'd appreciate more consultation--was hoping for the weekend before Mythcon, but I'm guessing that this news means you'll be too busy preparing your paper at that point.)

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[info]nigelpuggle
2008-07-27 06:18 pm UTC (link)
Good news! Glad it looks like it will all work out.

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