CD Lewis on "A Voyage to Arcturus" (David Lindsay, 1920)

Ben Crowder blog ^ | 19 Dec 1942 | CS "Jack" Lewis

[CharlesOConnell]

Mary, as for yo¯ hono¯s metaphysick mistresses, beatificall bona robas, hyper-uranian whoores, and transcendentall trulls, not oonlie my complexioun little delighteth in them but my ripe and more constant ivdgement reiecteth, esteeming them in truth no more but what Geo: Macdonald bringeth us in as Lilith in his nobly inuented but ill-languaged romans of the same name, or David Lyndesay of late, under the name Sullenbode, in his notable Voiage and Travell to Arctur¯.

[CharlesOConnell]

CS Lewis died the same day as Pres. JFK in 1963. Does anyone know the other famous person who died the same day? (11/22/1963?)

BTW: The book is cited in a discussion of an unfinished, adult sci fi titled "The Dark Tower" (the Stinging Man).

[schurmann]

Aldous Huxley

[PLMerite]

Aldous Huxley

[yarddog]

I remember reading many years ago that a World’s Fair was opened by some kind of switch which was activated by light from Arcturus.

[lee martell]

Is this an example of Welsh, or maybe Olde English? I could barely translate the first two sentences.

[BenLurkin]

Sometime after Chaucer and before Shakespeare maybe

[BenLurkin]

“hyper-uranian whoores, and transcendentall trulls”

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/saywhat.wav

[vladimir998]

“CD Lewis”

CD?

[bigbob]

Interesting-sounding free eBook, thanks

[CharlesOConnell]

Perfidious autofill.

[Nepeta]

I tried reading this book several times, and could not get far into it--and I was able to get through Eddison's Worm Ouroboros.