tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post4694125041321962517..comments2023-08-05T16:17:43.490+01:00Comments on The Inklings: Coins, his dragon's loinsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-88473746959499345712008-10-15T18:13:00.000+01:002008-10-15T18:13:00.000+01:00'Inexcusably difficult, as I always told him, but ...'Inexcusably difficult, as I always told him, but here there really is something behind the difficulty...'<BR/><BR/>I do like Lewis’s comment; there is a world of difference between a difficult work with ‘something behind the difficulty’ and denseness and difficulty created for the purpose of appearing deep (or, for that matter, denseness because one's just a bad writer!).<BR/><BR/>Even Lewis's sometimes getting himself into maddening tangles in his space trilogy can be forgiven because one can see he's trying ever so hard to get at something that he can't quite put into words!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-5878218501933122242008-10-14T08:57:00.000+01:002008-10-14T08:57:00.000+01:00There's a brilliant and perceptive discussion on t...There's a brilliant and perceptive discussion on this part of the Taliessin poems -- Bors and Elayne : On the King's Coins -- by John Hibbs on...<BR/><BR/>http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/relin/relin007.pdf <BR/><BR/>Well worth a read (don't be put off by the title)!Arborfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09378273311339123481noreply@blogger.com