The Pragmatic Mystic: An Orthodox Miscellany

The Pragmatic Mystic: An Orthodox Miscellany

"From the desire of damnation, Good Lord deliver us": an insight from Charles Williams and T. S. Eliot

A reflection and resolution for the approaching New Year

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Dec 27, 2024
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Grevel Lindop, in his fascinating and somewhat disturbing 2015 biography of Charles Williams (Charles Williams: The Third Inkling), recounts a curious anecdote concerning a meeting that took place in 1944, at which Williams and T. S. Eliot were both present:

In April [Williams] was invited, with Eliot and Dorothy Sayers, ‘to get together and […] prepare…

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