All Hallows' Eve
by Charles Williams · first published 1945
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Psychic experiences in London of two young women who have been killed in an accident.
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…It's all very poor judgement on his part, in multiple instances. There's no need to normalize that behaviour, because it's not normal, at least not in the world I'd like to live in. Recommended reading: All Hallows Eve by Charles Williams, a meditation on where stupidity and selfishness lead.
on “An Update on the UMN Affair” ↗…(http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Leaf_by_Niggle) - Tolkien's allegory. * _The Space Trilogy_ by C. S. Lewis - the adult version of _The Chronicles of Narnia_ * _All Hallow's Eve_ (https://openroadmedia.com/ebook/All-Hallows-Eve/978150400668... / http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400061.txt) * _The Eschaton Sequence_ (https://us.macmillan.com/series/theeschatonsequence/) - if you like Neal Stephenson's imagination of future…
on “Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?” ↗…generally misunderstand Hanlon's Razor. It's immaterial if someone is evil or just stupid, the only thing that matters is that they should not be making decisions about other people. (Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve is an extended meditation about just that.)
on “Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain” ↗…objective. Not everyone means by "beauty" "that which I find appealing". Some mean "the will's response to truth": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentals A wonderful example of this is given in _All Hallows Eve_ by Charles Williams: > "Over here," Jonathan said, and took his friend round to the other side of the room. A second easel was standing back to back with the first, also holding a canvas, but this uncovered.…
on “Why Is Everything So Ugly?” ↗