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Nigel thus:
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Williams is such a wonderful but odd writer, isn't he? I confess to an intense love-hate relationship with his books.
Mystical, baffing and worth re-reading...
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If I may make so bold about such a complex and mystical book, can I suggest that the primary thing going on in "The Place of the Lion" is that the archetype of each of the nine orders of angels is let loose >in the world.
(bows) This is a much better way of describing it...my only excuse, which is not a valid one, is that I was writing under conditions of some haste and lamentable fatigue.
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Remember that the heroine's thesis in "The Place of the Lion" is - if >my memory serves me - on "Neoplatonism in the Court of Charlemagne".
Archetypes were Platonic and then Neoplatonic commonplaces long before Jung reapplied the idea of psychology.
...mmm...that's right...I'll havta re-read it...(sighs, slings it on top of the 'Urgent Reading' pile...)
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Which is not to say that that idea may not also be present in >Williams, but I really don't believe that it's primary.
To be sure! I should know better than to post in haste (post-haste?) on
this list! Nothwithstanding this, I think that my point about retaining a cautious distinction between theological and fictional intentions is still, possibly, a partially valid one.
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consider how much he may too have
been playing with similar ideas to Williams. Interesting to see that he explicitly mentions reading Charles Williams in the interview which he >did with Nutria.
Hmmmm...that's right...
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Consciousness will always be one degree above comprehensibility.
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