He was, in fact, rather anti-Catholic; his friendship with Tolkien foundered on his contempt for Tolkien's religion.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
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.
Betsy HP - Apr 11, 2005 9:35:11 am PDT #4669 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Nutty - Apr 11, 2005 9:35:56 am PDT #4670 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
C. S. Lewis: keepin' it real for bitter old men since he was a young man.
Personally, I always thought it was the underlying 'tude rather than the specific points of doctrine/politics on which we can cast aspersions. Lewis got some kind of psychological charge out of being too old-world for the brave new world, you know? Tolkien, same deal, although he managed to create a whole different old world, rather than to oldify this one.
In sum, I think 'oldify' needs to be a real world.
In other news, the Red Sox are handing out rings Right Now and I am not in a position to receive one. (Nor, for that matter, to watch them handed out to other people, except on television, which, muted on a computer in one's cube, not especially special.)
Betsy HP - Apr 11, 2005 9:36:09 am PDT #4671 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I just don't think there's much odd/weird/wrong
I have never said it was odd or weird or wrong. In fact, I started by saying that it's typical of their class and age.
What I do say, and will continue to say, is that it annoys me, just as the anti-semitic stereotyping in Sayers annoys me.
Kathy A - Apr 11, 2005 9:36:55 am PDT #4672 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Tolkien was the Catholic.
Speaking of times changing and smoking, I just remembered candy cigarettes, which were very popular when I was very young (before 1975, for sure, and probably earlier). Now, what kind of message did those send? I'm surprised the smoking rate for Gen X isn't higher than it is.
Betsy HP - Apr 11, 2005 9:37:57 am PDT #4673 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Lewis got some kind of psychological charge out of being too old-world for the brave new world, you know? Tolkien, same deal, although he managed to create a whole different old world, rather than to oldify this one.
Precisely.
Jesse - Apr 11, 2005 9:38:46 am PDT #4674 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just remembered candy cigarettes,
I remember when they stopped having the "good" ones -- which had powdered sugar that you could puff out -- and I don't remember much prior to 1978 or so.
-t - Apr 11, 2005 9:39:32 am PDT #4675 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I loved candy cigarettes. We used to get them at the bowling alley. Which would have been when my mom was in a bowling league, so late 70s, maybe early early 80s. (eta: ooh, I never even knew about the puffy ones. Jealous)
brenda m - Apr 11, 2005 9:41:06 am PDT #4676 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'm surprised the smoking rate for Gen X isn't higher than it is.
I think those were gone by the time Gen Xers really started hitting the ground. By the early 80s, anyway.
DebetEsse - Apr 11, 2005 9:41:17 am PDT #4677 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
They had them into the late 80s.
Kate P. - Apr 11, 2005 9:41:45 am PDT #4678 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yeah, I definitely remember candy cigarettes from the late 80s.