Here's something I came across yesterday that some might find amusing. It's from the letters column in the newest issue of the magazine ANIME INSIDER...
Alisson Veldhuis wrote: (responding to my post about my novel in progress) ... Thank you for your comments! I hope your novel is going well. I'd be ...
Just popping back in to apologize for the type in Alexei's name in my previous post. Ellen ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I wouldn't have thought I'd need to explain to as close a C.S. Lewis reader as Alexei that the degree to which individuals are lovable, or flawed, varies...
... That's a pretty funny statement, considering that you just quoted yourself ... There you are backing up your own opinion by claiming that it's widespread ...
... I loved that book as well ... not least because it got me thinking about all sorts of things and prompted me to learn some real life stuff about the...
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alexeik@...
Mar 10, 2005 6:05 pm
In a message dated 3/10/5 2:30:04 AM, David B wrote: <<If Jack finds large parts of LOTR to be draggy, but claims to love the book, he is either referring to a...
Jack considers the "dragginess" of parts of LOTR to be sufficiently damning that he thinks the text should have been edited down at least to some extent. He...
I was looking through Walter E. Haigh's A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District, for which Tolkien wrote a foreword, and found that two...
Message ... Subject: [Wingfold] Work out your salvation with heart-pumping combat THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA TO BECOME GAME Posted: 3/9/2005 Disney Interactive,...
. . . met a South-going Zax. Officially giving up on this discussion, as David and I seem to have reached an impasse. I'm unable to convince him of my point...
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Bonnie Callahan
bonolatm@...
Mar 11, 2005 6:36 am
Hello all and Ahem; I propose a more complimentary term for the aforementioned tomes: "Leisurely paced". At least if they're deliberately composed thusly for...
Greetings! This is just to let folks on the MythSoc list that we'll be holding our next meeting of Andúnië, the Atlanta Smial, this coming Sunday from 6pm...
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David Lenander
d-lena@...
Mar 11, 2005 5:02 pm
Somehow this prompts me to wonder, does anyone know if Pauline Baynes's illustrations of Tash, which were obviously informed by the Millar illustration of a...
" Opopanax, a synthetic that he had expected to produce a resinous smell, ended up evoking mushrooms " This is from a (quite fascinating) article about how...
From: "David Lenander" <d-lena@...> ... I preferred Nesbit to Eager, despite the fact that Eager's more modern and American characters would make the books...
In a message dated 3/9/2005 7:41:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, carnimiriel@... writes: I was six the first time I read it, so I won't even go into ...
In a message dated 3/9/2005 10:09:54 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, ... more ... "transvaluation"...that is, the degree to ... into or ... Semiotics of Myth" by ...
Ooops, sorry... there is a view that every culture has sets of rules or codes that inform how folks in that culture interpret the world around them. For ...
In a message dated 3/13/2005 9:56:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, sverba@... writes; ... I'm sorry, but I don't see what you've done here except...
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David Lenander
d-lena@...
Mar 14, 2005 3:42 am
Someone mentioned the way that Brad Strickland had continued the various series that Bellairs used to write, especially the "Lewis Barnavelt/Rose Rita" series....
I am doing a thesis on C.S. Lewis and his influence on todays authors of children's fantasy. Does anyone know of authors who have been quoted as saying they...
In a message dated 3/13/2005 10:51:26 PM Central Standard Time, billie_knght@... writes: I am doing a thesis on C.S. Lewis and his influence on todays...
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Bonnie Callahan
bonolatm@...
Mar 14, 2005 8:34 am
Hi David: Well, it's always been obvious about CSL kicking off from Nesbit. hasn't it? Methinks it's been discussed at many a meeting. I've not been able to...
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Bonnie Callahan
bonolatm@...
Mar 14, 2005 8:41 am
Hi Diamond: & all naturalists: Interestingly, mangoes are in the same family as Poison Oak/Ivy/Sumac, as well as cashews. The "kerosene"; odor may be partly...
Well, Neil Gaiman, for one -- at his guest of honor speech at Mythson last year, he particularly cited Tolkien, Lewis, and Chesterton as influences. His...
