tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post7355590289239332014..comments2023-09-07T08:55:48.015+01:00Comments on Vintage Wargaming: The secret war gaming history of literary giantsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-30646043374944384152010-04-08T06:35:53.043+01:002010-04-08T06:35:53.043+01:00I soooo wished it to be true. Superb post sir!
Ala...I soooo wished it to be true. Superb post sir!<br />Alantradgardmastarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13116967655904601740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-80421952610448038692010-04-07T11:46:07.473+01:002010-04-07T11:46:07.473+01:00Hummm...well suckered good and proper, but the bes...Hummm...well suckered good and proper, but the best fiction is always based in fact, so I can save a little face by standing-by my comments;<br /><br />http://atheism.about.com/od/cslewisnarnia/a/jrrtolkein.htm<br /><br />Not quite as I remembered it, but the 'gist' is there!<br /><br />Well done!...muttermuttermutter..bloody photoshop...mutter...Hugh Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-62150804380634289502010-04-05T12:43:05.482+01:002010-04-05T12:43:05.482+01:00I realise that 1st April is long past, but this st...I realise that 1st April is long past, but this story rang some faint bells, and got me searching through my mother’s old scrapbooks. It adds little to the subject, but I did find what I was looking for, so thought I would comment here, if only to justify the search effort!<br /><br />The Times of 28th May 1978 has an interview by John Firman with Dirk Bogarde, the English film actor and sometime author, on the occasion of the publication of ‘Snakes and Ladders’, the latest instalment of Bogarde’s (copious) autobiography. During the discussion, reference is made to the extraordinary commercial success of J.R.R Tolkien’s works, and Bogarde’s view that they had tapped into a huge latent public demand for complex fantasy, as an escape from the pressures of modern reality.<br /><br />Bogarde is quoted as saying:<br /><br />“For a while I was very friendly with Hugo Dyson, who of course was an academic of great stature but also an absolute sweetheart. Amazingly, Hugo had a cameo acting part in ‘Darling’ [1965] and we became great friends. He had been a friend of Tolkien’s at Oxford, and recalled him as not being a lot of fun, a man of terrifying intensity, yet noted for strange parties at his home, at which the guests were often required to dress up as fairies and knights in armour.”<br /><br />Make of it what you will<br /><br />TonyMSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-8027386955231690572010-04-03T16:46:10.265+01:002010-04-03T16:46:10.265+01:00Nice! I admit it, you had me going for the first ...Nice! I admit it, you had me going for the first half of the piece. Well played, well played.....D Smithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-69468801214268301742010-04-01T17:31:24.979+01:002010-04-01T17:31:24.979+01:00Really excellent -- if it hadn't been for the ...Really excellent -- if it hadn't been for the reference to "Dungeons and Flagons" I'm sure you would have gotten me! An extremely fun read!Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05879583466324279794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-30593951506870665842010-04-01T15:36:47.985+01:002010-04-01T15:36:47.985+01:00THIS WAS AWESOME! I realized the foolery pretty ea...THIS WAS AWESOME! I realized the foolery pretty early in the article but it is well worth the read and almost makes it real.adeptgamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07132367534994617729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-80839325747226688552010-04-01T13:41:06.422+01:002010-04-01T13:41:06.422+01:00I had always believed that the line about "sn...I had always believed that the line about "snot-green, not-green bugger-cubes slither, sliding across the slimey surface of the crapular March map-plan" in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake was a reference to Kriegspiel, but Joyce was also in Paris, of course, so perhaps he'd played Beckett's wargame and was recalling that?camsell59https://www.blogger.com/profile/08231364756472231436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-67491821320084565692010-04-01T12:27:32.167+01:002010-04-01T12:27:32.167+01:00Oh very good... very very good... ..and look at ...Oh very good... very very good... ..and look at the date..... :o)))Steve-the-Wargamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07077311120172727690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-30524688537500193722010-04-01T09:18:05.228+01:002010-04-01T09:18:05.228+01:00I admit it; you got me. A brilliant piece of rese...I admit it; you got me. A brilliant piece of research.johnpreecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548014163096067684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-74027249081997404892010-04-01T04:51:17.563+01:002010-04-01T04:51:17.563+01:00Fascinating indeed. Don't we all wish that we...Fascinating indeed. Don't we all wish that we could have been there . . . or at least could see it well in our minds' eyes?<br /><br /><br />-- JeffBluebear Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07595975572873838050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-59040785074914637132010-04-01T03:10:10.788+01:002010-04-01T03:10:10.788+01:00Although they continued to meet and drink together...Although they continued to meet and drink together in the pub, there was apparently a falling out between Tolkien and Lewis, as the latter's books were clearley a religious allegory of good vs. evil, while Tolkien insisted to his dying day that his was not an allegory of anything just a fantasy. Not that many believed him!<br /><br />I forget the finer details of the spat, or the final outcome, but I think for a while they sat and glared at each other rather than having the chats while they supped, that had previously been the norm?Hugh Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-26271966050419146182010-04-01T02:07:22.177+01:002010-04-01T02:07:22.177+01:00I've often wondered if Peter Young ever met Sa...I've often wondered if Peter Young ever met Samuel Beckett in the aftermath of the liberation of France. Beckett did partake of a simplified wargame using painted wooden blocks after he emigrated to France and he laments the loss of his set when he went on the run in 1942. Debord's game is a more stylised version of the Beckettian original. Beckett never cared for the Debordian game, the squared surface robbed the game of its interest and spontaneity; writing in an article for Poetry Ireland in 1977, he said "Tears, laughter and fixed movement rates, they are so much Gaelic to me."Conrad Kinchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15683395740934527502noreply@blogger.com