The Company They Keep by Diana Pavlac Glyer

As God hovers over his creation, centering us or shaping us or even restoring us from collapse, he may transform us in ways we never imagined. She concedes that the Tuesday sessions may be 'accurately described as just a gathering of friends' (19).Most Christians have heard that God is the potter and we are the clay, but Diana Pavlac Glyer, who has spent countless hours at the potter's wheel, shows in this remarkable book that this saying is far more than a casual metaphor. If the matter is to be settled by quantitative estimates, Glyer probably would not be able to sustain her contention, since approximately half of the Inklings gatherings-on Tuesday mornings-were devoted to freely ranging conversation. However, Glyer contends that the Inklings 'were members of a writing group, knowledgeable peers who met on a regular basis to discuss written works in progress' (42, my italics). Humphrey Carpenter and others assume that the Inklings met above all for 'discussion and conversation' (22). Tolkien, and other men who met in Lewis's Magdalen College rooms on Thursday evenings and in the Eagle and Child pub on Tuesday mornings during the 1930s and well into the 1940s. Lewis and his brother Warren, Lewis's doctor R. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2007. Tolkien as Writers in Community, by Diana Pavlac Glyer. Tolkien Studies West Virginia University Press īook Reviews The Company They Keep: C. But her statement that the Inklings did indeed meet on Thursday evenings 'as a writing group for about seventeen She concedes that the Tuesday sessions may be 'accurately described as just a gathering of friends' (19).

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The Company They Keep by Diana Pavlac Glyer