tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post5874604827974613407..comments2024-03-29T09:09:24.834+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Temples In The Open AirKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-39291847920625817822016-09-06T16:18:18.592+01:002016-09-06T16:18:18.592+01:00Kaor, Paul!
I looked up the Liverpool Metropolita...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />I looked up the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and I have to admit that, from an architectural point of view, it can be criticized. Even the modest "brick Gothic" cathedral of St. Chad in Birmingham made a better impression, architecturally.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-8279738458625697882016-09-06T07:45:26.600+01:002016-09-06T07:45:26.600+01:00All.
In Liverpool, I prefer the giant Anglican Cat...All.<br />In Liverpool, I prefer the giant Anglican Cathedral.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-25781343040765332422016-09-06T03:23:46.576+01:002016-09-06T03:23:46.576+01:00Kaor, Paul and David!
And remember the descriptio...Kaor, Paul and David!<br /><br />And remember the description of the cathedral made entirely of glass like materials on the planet Freehold in "Outpost of Empire." That too impressed me.<br /><br />And Poul Anderson gives us a striking glimpse of York Minster in GENESIS. And I too have visited the Minster at the time I was in York.<br /><br />David: one of my favorite places to visit was the Catholic Westminster Cathedral, in London. What you said about Liverpool Cathedral reminded me of Westminster.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-37109925025661077032016-09-06T00:45:31.660+01:002016-09-06T00:45:31.660+01:00David,
Eeriness is our business.
Paul.David,<br />Eeriness is our business.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-3577524170937507622016-09-06T00:33:21.605+01:002016-09-06T00:33:21.605+01:00Paul:
David Drake, in the foreword to one of his b...Paul:<br />David Drake, in the foreword to one of his books, mentioned a visit to Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. He specified that he wasn't particularly religious, and had been raised in a tradition of hostility to Roman Catholicism, so he "didn't expect to have a positive reaction" -- but when he walked into that cathedral, SOME quality of it gave him "a feeling of peace and happiness which I've never felt in another building." It evidently wasn't a conversion experience, but nonetheless he felt a sacredness there.<br /><br />One unrelated note: a book I quoted some weeks ago, *Joris of the Rock*, includes an Englishman from York. Shortly before the battle that kills him, he thinks he hears a bell of York Minster tolling "as for a passing." He's hundreds of miles away from York at the time, in what equates to northern France. <br /><br />It struck me as a touch eerie that you made several mentions of York Minster at just about the time I read that passage.David Birrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973889429164886381noreply@blogger.com