I don’t know whether it’s @HeerJeet or @jholbo1 who should be writing up Brexit’s hashtagization of CS Lewis’s barmiest novel, but it’s surely one of ‘em.https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1107687206045536258 …
Haven't read but my memory of other Hoyle is that he's not a great writer.
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That would be an accurate recollection. The plot of the book demonstrates that the The Third Man and The Quiet Man work poorly together. But the Econ is interesting, as are the wallops at Lewis. Rather than Lewis’s NICE as a front for satanic ‘macrobes’ from space, you get
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ICE, the Industrial Corporation of Eire, which is a front for apparently-benevolent-if-creepy aliens intent on modernizing Ireland and the world whatever it takes. As an aside, my favorite Bad Hoyle moment is the bit in The Black Cloud where he has the super intelligent entity
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confirm the truth of Hoyle’s own pet Steady State Hypothesis. It’s a kind of Mary Sue moment, for Olaf Stapleton macrocosmic versions of Mary Sue.
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