Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams (Chapters 1-2)

It's time again for that novel-est of novelists, Charles Williams!

Feel free to read Descent Into Hell here (there's a new audiobook by the way.)

Meagan, Chris, Sophie Burkhardt, and David L. Carter discuss Charles Williams' Descent Into Hell, Chapters 1-2!

They discuss...

Chapter 1: The Magus Zoroaster

(In which Pauline Anstruther, who has a bit part in that new Peter Stanhope play Battle Hill is putting on, meets her own image walking toward her on the way home.)

• Diana Pavlac Glyer's The Company They Keep
• Williams' plays including Judgement at Chelmsford, and T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.  
• "A Terrible Good": Can goodness be terrible?
• Plays and plot cohesion
• Pastorals and Woodland Tree Spirits

Chapter 2: Via Mortis

(In which a nameless construction worker, some time ago, killed himself to get back at the world, only to find that he still exists, and maybe wanders unsteadily toward redemption.)

• Mostly plot summary here
• Potential purposeless of an immortal existence (Queen song from Highlander reprise)

That's it for now!  

Check out Sophie Burkhardt's podcast here: Beneath the Willow Tree on Apple Podcasts

Check out David L. Carter's work here: Amazon.com: David L. Carter: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

 

Thanks, as always, to Logan Huggins for making us sound better than we normally would!  I wish I had him around to edit what I say in real time.

 

Next week: Sorina Higgins joins us to discuss Chapters 3-4!