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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:15:23 -0700, Paul S. Person   
    wrote:   
      
   >It;s been several years (decades?) since I last read William's novels.   
   >That was a second reading, so the impression left is, perhaps, a   
   >little more balanced than one from a first reading would be. The   
   >impression I recall getting is that they are /nothing like/ the works   
   >of JRRT or Lewis -- that is, that they just aren't fantasy or science   
   >fiction in the same sense as the works of JRRT (fantasy) or Lewis   
   >(fantasy or science fiction).   
      
   With the possible exception of "That hideous strength", which has been said to   
   be Lewis's attempt at a Williams-type novel.   
      
   Williams's novels can be described as "fairy tales" in Chesterton's sense of   
   "extraordinary things happening to ordinary people" (as opposed to "superhero"   
   comics, for example).   
      
      
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