Charles Williams, The Greater Trumps

About this event

As in the past few years, we are going to have one meeting in mid-December instead of one meeting on the last Wednesday of November and another on the last Wednesday of December, since both of those usually conflict with holiday travel plans. For this time, we will be doing Charles Williams's novel The Greater Trumps , which are the non-numbered cards in a tarot deck (the fool, the lovers, the hanged man, etc.), as an attempt to understand the underlying nature or structure of life and the world, which of course, being a Williams "supernatural thriller," always meets and is fulfilled in some representative of Christian mysticism. It's not a Christmas story per se, but there is a wonderful blizzard that seems to fit with coming into winter (although, hopefully not the 9th itself). As always, we look forward to seeing any and all who can make it out for a lively conversation (and a good meal, if you're so inclined). And as with this meeting in the past, if there are any of our regulars who have travel plans that don't work with the 9th, let me know in here and we'll probably change it to the 16th.

From The Pittsburgh Inklings