"Magdalen" is pronounced Maudlin. That's how Oxford's locals detect 'tourists' ;)
Although as any fule kno, that’s true only of the college, and not the street in the centre of town; this is how town detects gown.
Of mice and men and Magdalen: C. S. Lewis’s Oxford
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#12"Magdalen" is pronounced Maudlin. That's how Oxford's locals detect 'tourists' ;)
Yes, I stumbled over the headline because I think the writer wants it to rhyme, but it doesn’t.
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#14Not very impressed with the writer: CS Lewis was impressed enough with JRRT that the character of Ransome in the Space Trilogy is based on him. And Shadowlands was probably based on the book “A Grief Observed” , which was not mentioned. Further the Space Trilogy mentioned multiple times Lewis’ dread of bureaucracy including the NICE being an agent of evil and Studdock’s wrongful desire to be part of the in crowd of t…
This seems wrong - Tolkien was deeply Catholic.
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#15> The sheer level of spartan discomfort, for instance, that university denizens were expected to endure Sometimes* I wonder how much of the spartan discomfort in 1984 was authorial discretion characterising outer party life, and how much was just the background normal spartan discomfort of mid-XX britain. * like when I read that Orwell had been burning furniture to stay warm
If you haven't read it Road to Wigan pier is a great work by Orwell on the status of the British poor post war.
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#16> The sheer level of spartan discomfort, for instance, that university denizens were expected to endure Sometimes* I wonder how much of the spartan discomfort in 1984 was authorial discretion characterising outer party life, and how much was just the background normal spartan discomfort of mid-XX britain. * like when I read that Orwell had been burning furniture to stay warm
A friend of mine in the mid 70s was reduced to burning furniture in his Edinburgh flat. Mind you, given the temperature in Edinburgh back then, and the quality of the furniture, you could hardly blame him.I always found the wardrobes intensely depressing.
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#17"Magdalen" is pronounced Maudlin. That's how Oxford's locals detect 'tourists' ;)
Yes, I stumbled over the headline because I think the writer wants it to rhyme, but it doesn’t.
The allusion to Robbie Burns / John Steinbeck in the title felt a little odd too, notwithstanding there being a mention of mice in the body of the article.
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#19Not very impressed with the writer: CS Lewis was impressed enough with JRRT that the character of Ransome in the Space Trilogy is based on him. And Shadowlands was probably based on the book “A Grief Observed” , which was not mentioned. Further the Space Trilogy mentioned multiple times Lewis’ dread of bureaucracy including the NICE being an agent of evil and Studdock’s wrongful desire to be part of the in crowd of t…
This seems wrong - Tolkien was deeply Catholic.
Why would that stop Lewis from being impressed by him?
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#20Not very impressed with the writer: CS Lewis was impressed enough with JRRT that the character of Ransome in the Space Trilogy is based on him. And Shadowlands was probably based on the book “A Grief Observed” , which was not mentioned. Further the Space Trilogy mentioned multiple times Lewis’ dread of bureaucracy including the NICE being an agent of evil and Studdock’s wrongful desire to be part of the in crowd of t…
This seems wrong - Tolkien was deeply Catholic.
a summary - CS Lewis urged Tolkien to publish the Hobbit etc; Tolkien had a great influence on CS Lewis also : https://oxfordvisit.com/articles/c-s-lewis-at-oxford-narnia-...