Comments on: Relationships Between 10 Classic Authors

By: Adventurous Wench women's travel

Adventurous Wench women's travel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:56:21 +0000

Very interesting story here. I specially like Cap'n H contribution on Frankenstein that I had to google it and verify.

Birds of the same feather really do flock together.

By: liphttam1

liphttam1 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:52:51 +0000

C.S. lewis and J.R.R. Tolken were freinds and hated eachothers work. I think that they were jealous instead.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:50:32 +0000

@lir: Yes, the LOTR movies came out before the Narnia movies. It doesn't mean that Lewis copied Tolkien. By the way, Lewis wrote other stuff, but I'll bet you wouldn't know that since none of it has made it to the big screen.

By: Cap'n H

Cap'n H — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:18:30 +0000

Tolkien was not only a Christian in a nation that was predominantly Christian and still is. The significance of Tolkien's religion is that he was a Catholic in a nation with a state religion that was founded as anti-Catholic. It's a fact that until 1829, Catholics lacked the same civil liberties and protections of the law as Anglicans/Episcopalians. There's some fascinating stuff here, and I would hope for more. Perhaps the relationships between Mary Shelly and Lord Byron shall be counted on the list. She was a young bride, and after a stormy night of telling ghost stories with her husband Percy and their friend, Lord Byron, wihle in Switzerland, she proceeded to pen a novel that would result in one of the most notorious horror archetypes. The name of the novel was "Frankenstein."

By: Stacy

Stacy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:09:19 +0000

@Easy - he was, or at least he was bisexual. He also married and had two children.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:03:16 +0000

CS - largely the book The Secret Lives of Great Authors by Robert Schnakenberg. Thanks for mentioning... I'll link to it in the post, 'cause it's a really interesting read Neatoramanauts might be interested in.

By: ted

ted — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:23:42 +0000

Yeah, I really doubt Oscar Wilde was all that concerned about losing a woman to Bram Stoker.

It's an example, though, of how gay men were (and still are, in most places) pressured to marry women to appear normal.

By: cs

cs — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:57:36 +0000

links to sources? do we just take your word for it?

By: Idil

Idil — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:35:35 +0000

Thanks, this was really interesting! =D looking forward to part 2 if it will be up.

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:19:12 +0000

Great post!

By: E@L

E@L — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:32:00 +0000

And Sam Beckett so idolized James Joyce that he went to as far as to insist on not only wearing the same style of tennis shoe, but to cram his feet into the same SIZE as Joyce. (This may be apocryphal. Well it IS apocryphal, but it may be untrue as well.)

Easy- "Doesn’t mean he can’t get married I spose." Not in California. Ho ho ho...

By: Easy

Easy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:48:39 +0000

I thought Oscar Wilde was gay? Doesn't mean he can't get married I spose.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:55:19 +0000

Fascinating stuff. Though I do have to say I absolutely loathe "The Great Gatsby". Never shall I bore myself with such trivial literature!

By: lir

lir — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:23:50 +0000

And, while in group meetings both Tolkien and Lewis and several other authors would read snippets of what they were working on to each other for advice, until Lewis started copying Tolkien, and thus Tolkien stopped reading in the group.

By: expat

expat — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:23:47 +0000

And Truman Capote was childhood friends with Harper Lee, including being the basis for Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.

By: violet

violet — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:06:30 +0000

A man a bullfighter red smells round buttons my coat this coat this man this father quick lines blood running down a coat, a coat a cape a red cape this man and hills of white elephants a man. Buttons.

By: Patrick B

Patrick B — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:04:32 +0000

By reputation you would think that Lewis would have been trying to convert Tolkien, but it was the other way around. Tolkien was a Christian first and was the one who convinced Lewis.

I'm just glad they both wrote since their respective books are some of my favorites.

By: Susano

Susano — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:59:21 +0000

I understand C.S. Lewis's comment to be"Not another elf!"

By: DaveL

DaveL — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:48:35 +0000

But did you know that JFK was schtupping Emily Post?