Wright’s tome has yet to be seriously refuted by any scholar. This one book by him - an 800-page tome that features citations from basically every major and minor work from 600 BCE – 300 CE and many others besides - proves, unequivocally, that the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth was a historical event that actually happened. The Complete Works of Chesterton by G K Chestertonĭr N T Wright was an Oxford fellow and internationally renowned archeologist and historian. Both combined with Sayer’s The Mind of the Maker also unveil how I _think_ about fiction.
It - combined with his ideas in The Seeing Eye - are where I first got the core ideas for my long-planned, long-delayed fantasy series in Gergia and The Vale. And, frankly, is something like metafiction. It is, in my opinion, the real finish he originally envisioned. Though Strength answers almost every question of consciousness, artificial intelligence, and questions of Decarte’s demon - whether we’re living in a simulation - Dark Tower by Lewis focuses more on parallel universes and travel into the past.
It’s far more Norse or Gothic influenced in contrast to the more Byzantine and Arthurian ending in That Hideous Strength. C S Lewis wrote a prequel or something similar to his space trilogy entitled The Dark Tower. Not Tolkien’s reference to the Dark Tower in The Two Towers. That leaves us with an odd list of influences, for sure: However, I can concede - for the moment - both the more obvious and more obscure parts that I find helpful. People don’t read as much of the canon or classics as claim think they do (I’ve spent concerted effort on it myself and everyone who claims to ‘hate’ the canon can neither tell me what it is, why it exists, nor whether any - for instance - black men like Augustine or Arabs like Gilgamesh or black Jews like the wife of Solomon or Asians like Sun Tzu are included).
They’re not necessarily the three most influential, but once you start weeding out translations of classics (Ovid, Dante, the Bible, and even Gilgamesh go out), obscure bits of the canon (Boethius, Bonaventure, de Charney, the Bhagavad Gita, Edda, and other myths - particularly Sumerian, Gaelic, Gothic, and Cherokee), and the key voices in my genre (I write in like four genres so that cuts out everyone from King to Card, Lewis to Le Carré, Rowling to Doyle, Sparks to Spencer), I’m left with non-canonised, non-genre staples that inform my thoughts. I really love recherché, so I was half tempted to give you a list of ten books and ten words on each, but I’ve narrowed it down to three. Thanks for having me on for Secret Library, Richard.
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