(urth) Charles Williams
David Duffy
David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au
Mon Dec 17 14:51:14 PST 2012
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Daniel Petersen wrote:
> Yes, those were two novels by each of them that I hadn't yet read, so I
> read them both recently, hoping for resonances. My first impression is
> that they each took their own uniquely weird take on the tarot (about
> which, though, I know little) with about zero overlap! That's probably the
> best I've read by Powers so far - excellent. Williams's was a more minor
> effort in my opinion but had one of my all-time favourite theological moves
> (reminding me very much of the Wolfe's Outsider) and one of the best
> freakish visions in the Williams canon - whole novel was worth it for that
> alone.
>
> (I was subsequently weirded out to see the tarot feature in Cormac
> McCarthy's *Blood Meridian* as well!)
>
Agree with all the Williams recommendations (our uni library had
his complete set of novels). Sidetracking onto other tarot novels (this
has happened before, I think), Calvino and Eco.
Cheers, David Duffy.
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