The Inklings, and their co-horts, were the last vestiges of Victorian/Edwardian writers. They reveled in their non-modernity and rejected the new stuff (JRRT was notorious in his dislike of television, and even though he had a car while his kids were still living at home, he got rid of it during WWII or right after, and never bought another).
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Apr 11, 2005 8:50:19 am PDT #4626 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Jesse - Apr 11, 2005 8:50:44 am PDT #4627 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Relevance?
Oh, I just mean that Betsy's beer-drinking, pipe-smoking women are around in 1950, so if the Inklings are not hanging out with female authors as peers, they're doing it on purpose.
Edit: There, see? Like Kathy said.
I don't actually have any position to take in this discussion.
Jessica - Apr 11, 2005 8:51:12 am PDT #4628 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You know, if my mother had named me "Clive Staples," I might not have had the most enlightened attitudes towards women either.
Nutty - Apr 11, 2005 8:53:46 am PDT #4629 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Clive Owen doesn't seem to have a problem. I mean, we don't know that his middle name is Staples, but it could be, like, Hitler or Hassenpfeffer or Oogedy-Boogedy. Nonetheless, he neither smokes a pipenor rails against modernity.
Scrappy - Apr 11, 2005 8:55:00 am PDT #4630 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
His middle name is, obviously, "Robin's Lover".
Betsy HP - Apr 11, 2005 8:56:01 am PDT #4631 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
If you get my share of C.S. Lewis, does this mean I get your share of Noel Coward?
Jessica - Apr 11, 2005 8:56:33 am PDT #4632 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think Clive Owen should smoke a pipe. Mrowr.
(And for "smoke a pipe," insert...well, just about anything.)
Nutty - Apr 11, 2005 8:57:50 am PDT #4633 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think he would look very silly smoking a pipe. Really, the age of the pipe has gone by, unless you're smoking dope in the pipe, in which case, you win irony points (double if you'er also wearing a grandfather sweater).
Trudy Booth - Apr 11, 2005 8:58:22 am PDT #4634 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
His middle name is, obviously, "Robin's Lover".
As opposed to Tolkien who, due to a tragic scooby-dooish speech impediment, was "Robin's Rover"?
Jesse - Apr 11, 2005 8:58:48 am PDT #4635 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh man, I should totally start smoking a pipe. They always smell so good.