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   Steve Hayes to jwsheffield@satx.rr.com   
   Descent into hell   
   02 Nov 11 05:56:20   
   
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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:27:51 -0700 (PDT), "jwsheffield@satx.rr.com"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Descent into Hell, a Novel [Paperback]   
   >Charles Williams (Author)   
   >   
   >   
   >Book Description   
   >Publication Date: January 1, 1999   
   >The key to William's mystically oriented theological thought, Descent   
   >into Hell (arguably William's greatest novel) is a multidimensional   
   >story about human beings who shut themselves up in their own   
   >narcissicstic projections, so that they are no longer able to love, to   
   >"co-inhere". The result is a veritable hell.   
      
   I don't think it's his greatest book. It's actually the one of his novels I   
   like least.   
      
   At the moment I'm reading "All Hallows Eve" with some people on a mailing   
   list, commenting as we go.   
      
   >http://www.amazon.com/Descent-into-Novel-Charles-Williams/dp/0802812201   
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa   
   Web:  http://khanya.wordpress.com   
   Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com   
      
   "She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist."   
   -- Jean-Paul Sartre   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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