o fish, are you constant to the old covenant?

[tabacoychanel]

Day 23 - A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven't

C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces.

When I was in high school I wrote a story about why Cassandra spurned Apollo. It was for English class. We were reading Rita Dove's Mother Love, which is a collection of poems  about Persephone being a prostitute in fin de siècle Paris and Demeter

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[hamsterwoman]

I've been meaning to finally read some Tim Powers but not really sure where to start. D'you think Declare would be a good starting point?

C.S.Lewis, on the other hand... I'm afraid to touch anything by C.S.Lewis...

[tabacoychanel]

I'd probably say start with Last Call. It's got tarot and Arthurian mythology and Tennyson and yes, lots of TS Eliot and also a Golden-Bough-like year-king thing going on, and it's about gambling! In Vegas! It's amazing.

Hey, I grew up on Narnia and I turned out all right didn't I.

[hamsterwoman]

All of that (minus the Arthurian mythology -- but if I muddled through the Fionavar Tapestry I'm sure I could handle it here) sounds great! Especially the TS Eliot :)

Hey, I grew up on Narnia and I turned out all right didn't I.

Heh. I don't think he's inherently evil or whatever! And if I'd read Narnia as a kid I probably would've liked it, too. I mean, apparently it's got a badass mouse? I bet I would've loved that. But knowing it's Christian allegory, I don't think I'd enjoy it at all. (Even the movies kind of bugged me with that. And they were full of pretty people!)

Also, it's not just Narnia. Actually, the only thing of Lewis's I've actually read was some correspondence with Tolkien, and I just don't like him much from what I see there...

But it's OK, see. I grew up on all kinds of blatant Soviet propaganda, and I turned out all right, too :P

[tabacoychanel]

i .... actually could not handle the fionavar tapestry. too much gandalf for me. anyway i know what you mean, it was nice reading lewis before i became a card-carrying member of the bertrand russell society was really aware what lewis stood for. what was his correspondence with tolkien like? did tolkien come off that way as well?

I turned out all right, too
jury's still out on that one ;_____;

OMG THIS MEME. THE END IS IN SIGHT. HALLELUJAH. IDK HOW YOU FINISHED YOURS SO QUICKLY TO BE HONEST. you actually did two memes, or at least one and a half. respect.