tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post738918674395161731..comments2024-03-28T13:10:04.655+00:00Comments on The Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog: How important were The Inklings to The Inklings?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post-56554385979242864732017-06-14T06:36:19.205+01:002017-06-14T06:36:19.205+01:00@David
I suspect that any 'map' would en...@David <br /><br />I suspect that any 'map' would end up more misleading than helpful! - because the reality of friendship and influence is dynamic, always changing. Apparently, no two people agree on it either! - which isn't surprising given that the information is not generally available to introspection, and unknown factors are at work. <br /><br />I have read The Masters several times, and the follow-up The Affair is equally good. I have read several of Snow's other novels, but these two stand-out. His non-fiction The Physicists is excellent too. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post-24000964599299147162017-06-14T00:50:57.159+01:002017-06-14T00:50:57.159+01:00Thanks for a reflection so full of thought and foo...Thanks for a reflection so full of thought and food for thought! I suddenly wish I knew enough to make a Venn diagram of Inklings-contemporary Oxford men and groups - the OUP (and Gerry Hopkins), the Socratic Club (and Austin Farrer, among others), the Dante Society (and Colin Hardie), the Pilgrim Players, the Zernovs, the English Faculty (and so many, including Helen Gardner), various Churches and Chapels and their clergy, former students, fellow College members (for example, Schrödinger! - and Karl Leyser gave a very interesting (and, I suspect, variously idiosyncratic) talk about being at Magdalen, and his perceptions of Lewis's 'circle' more widely - much of which fed without specific attribution into A.N. Wilson's Lewis bio - and some record of which,one hopes, is in the current keeping of Michael Ward), Lady Ottoline Morrell's Garsington guests, Masefield and the Oxford Recitations and their myriad participants. <br /><br />I've finally caught with C.P. Snow, beginning with the Masters: what various real Oxford equivalents of that group of Cambridge college fellows in the 1930s must there have been, including various Inklings?<br /><br />David Llewellyn Dodds Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com