XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 05:05:01 UTC, Steve Hayes    
   wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:55:22 GMT, Sindamor@Pandaturion.mor.dr wrote:   
   >   
   > >...Stream of consciousness 3   
   > >   
   > >Speaking of Inklings and the periphery, one person both Lewis and   
   > >Tolkien seemed to share a disdain for was Dorothy L. Sayers.  Odd,   
   > >given that she was a gifted Christian aplogist, but Tolkien really   
   > >seemed quite offended by her Busman's Holiday.  Any ideas why she   
   > >rankled them so?   
   >   
   > I thought Sayers was a semi-inkling. They criticised each others work,   
   > sometimes quite harshly.   
      
   I don't understand why Lewis would be thought hostile to her. They   
   exchanged mostly-respectful letters on many occasions, and though they did   
   a certain amount of sparring, it seems to be well within bounds. For   
   instance, he said she really ought to write about a particular matter; she   
   said she wasn't the one to do it, and invoked her Proper Job ideas; he   
   didn't buy that, considering (iirc) that it was an easy way out of doing   
   that work. But then, he wouldn't have wanted her to write on the matter if   
   he hadn't respected her work. (In context, it's plainly not a sloughing   
   off of some stupid and distasteful job on someone who deserves no better.)   
      
   Indeed, Tolkien hated the detective works, especially the later ones. Why,   
   I don't know. Lewis remarked in his panegyric (his word) to her memory   
   that he was unable to enjoy detective novels; but, Lewis-like, he blamed   
   his own taste, not hers. OTOH Lewis said he re-read her _Man Born To Be   
   King_ every Eastertide.   
      
      
      
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