Books
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Sunday Night Journal — March 6, 2011 Elizabeth Goudge should have been an Inkling. At least from the literary point of view she fits perfectly with those gentlemen who gathered in Oxford at the Eagle and Child, and I’d like to think they would have enjoyed her company, and she theirs. But in any case…
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It's not something one has occasion to do very often, but I did feel a twinge of pity for her when I read this rejection letter. Read this first if you've never read any of her writing. This reminds me of Flannery O'Connor in one of her letters, dismissing the work of some avant-garde writer: "If…
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Sunday Night Journal —February 6, 2011 A Few Seconds of Panic, by Stefan Fatsis. Football season is over, so it’s a bit late for me to be mentioning this book, but maybe anyone who’s interested will be as dilatory as I am and won’t get around to reading it till late next summer. It’s one…
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Well, I got back on Monday night from one of my whirlwind 36-hour trips to visit family in north Alabama, and after coping with domestic issues such as the little fuzzy-haired dog being covered, yet again, with cypress needles and cypress cones that ooze a glue-like resin, sat down and half-wrote my half-composed Sunday Night…
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I had skipped this when it first came out, having been less than happy with The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. But I'm half-planning to go see Voyage of the Dawn Treader, so I thought I ought to see PC, too. (Why? I don't know, exactly, it just seems that I should, but I…
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"You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound." (from "Jeeves Takes Charge")
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How wonderful, on the day after Christmas, to sit in a comfortable chair near the lighted tree, take up a volume of Wodehouse received as a gift from one's spouse, and find that the title of the first story is "The Custody of the Pumpkin." It was as good as the title suggests. "Lord Emsworth…
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See the anecdote about Eliot reading for the Queen and her family at the end of this. (Hat tip to Toby Danna.)
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Sunday Night Journal — December 13, 2010 The flight from Christianity has been a prominent feature of Western intellectual life since the 18th century, and it can be said that the anti-culture has existed since then. Mockery has always been an important part of its response to the faith it rejects. Mockery is a good…
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Has anybody seen Voyage of the Dawn Treader yet? And if so what did you think? We watched The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe last night. This was the third time I'd seen it, and my reaction overall is more or less the same as when it first came out: flawed but pretty good. I wish…
Light On Dark Water 