tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post3331684937832085867..comments2023-10-31T07:32:11.739-04:00Comments on Wormtalk and Slugspeak: Mechthild Gretsch, RIPMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566889846240013567noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-88244220258429895102013-04-29T09:28:46.582-04:002013-04-29T09:28:46.582-04:00Hi! I live in Sweden and have been educated in Swe...Hi! I live in Sweden and have been educated in Sweden so please excuse my English if it isn't perfect. <br /><br />I've been listening to some of your Modern Scholar-lectures on Tolkien and the West and the lectures on Fantasy. <br /><br />I have really enjoyed both these lecture series (although I disagree with you about some of the things you say about C S Lewis) and they have given me both a renewed intressed in the academic world and in fantasy.<br /><br />I don't know if you're allowed to wish for things here but... <br /><br />I would love it if you could do a blog on the friendship of Tolkien and C S Lewis - not on the Inklings as such - more on the friendship between those two and how their respective writing was influenced by that friendship.<br /><br />Oh - and by the way - you need to work on your Swedish accent a bit =) <br /><br />Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14229031930377008939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-8390503365225429272013-04-08T20:52:34.530-04:002013-04-08T20:52:34.530-04:00Inspiring and sweet.Inspiring and sweet.m.y.http://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-75038717944034841762013-04-06T09:19:41.824-04:002013-04-06T09:19:41.824-04:00Hey what a fun blog. I loved your Hobbit-thing and...Hey what a fun blog. I loved your Hobbit-thing and also this was a lovely story.<br /><br />Thanks. Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14229031930377008939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-43392696997593127052013-04-01T13:29:56.398-04:002013-04-01T13:29:56.398-04:00I'm glad to see this post, partially because I...I'm glad to see this post, partially because I share your admiration of <i>The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform</i> (which was a huge influence on my own dissertation), but mainly because it allows me to share a personal anecdote about Mechthild Gretsch. <br /><br />When I was in graduate school at UNC, Helmut Gneuss was a visiting scholar for a short time. While he was there, we had a potluck reception for him and his wife (who at the time I only knew as "Gneuss's wife," not as a scholar in her own right). My wife and I, being homesick Texans, decided to make homemade salsa. We made two varieties: a milder red salsa and a much hotter salsa verde. It was our first stab at making salsa, so I suppose we can be forgiven for making it a little hotter than we had intended. Anyway, we went to the party and passed around both varieties of salsa, warning the guests that the green was the hotter of the two and that the red was "not as hot." I can still remember the startled look on Mechthild Gretsch's face when she exclaimed "The red is incredibly hot!" There may have been tears coming from her eyes, but perhaps the tears are the product of the embellishment of memory. <br /><br />I was saddened when I saw the notices of her death. She remains one of my own scholarly inspirations and the only eminent Anglo-Saxonist I've ever harmed with my cooking.<br /><br />Prof. de Breezehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15058193046200756821noreply@blogger.com