Here, Ethan, a middle schooler, has lost his mother. Williams’s whole theme, in all of his work, is courtesy-that is, the courtesies fitting for citizens of the City of God. Parents need to know that Inkling is a thoughtful and creative read by Kenneth Oppel, the acclaimed Canadian author of The Nest, The Boundless, and Every Hidden Thing.As in The Nest, there are themes of loss mixed with fantasy elements. And God comes on stage as “The Mercy” or “The Omnipotence.” He never called Jesus Jesus: it is Messias, usually. He may have had early associations with the Rosicrucians and certainly used arcane and mystical objects frequently. He loved to draw on the sumptuousness of Catholicism for his imagery: terms like Our Blessed Lord, Our Lady, and the Mass. Williams flitted about the edges of the Roman Catholic Church like a moth, at least in his writings but he lived and died an Anglican. Auden said that, when he first tried to read Williams’s poetry, he couldn’t make head or tail of it, but he read Williams’s quirky history of the church once every year. He wrote feverishly, on the backs of envelopes, on tickets, and on any odd slips of paper he could put his hands on. While individual letters, words, and the occasional phrase are often similar to real-life languages, Inkling as a whole has been confirmed by Splatoon developers to be almost entirely random.
INKLING READ SERIES
However, after almost 50 years of reading Williams and everything about him, I am convinced he went to his grave faithful in all senses to his wife, Florence, whom he had (typically) named “Michal”-after Saul’s daughter. Inkling, 1 also referred to as squid language, 2 is the language in which Inklings in the Splatoon series communicate. When he lectured, Williams would pop about, sitting on the edge of the desk with legs all tangled up, then jumping off, jingling coins in his pocket, and generally keeping things stirred up. He did not have much in the way of looks, but women were magnetically attracted to him, and he had some more-than-peculiar associations (see his Letters to Lalage). But when Williams died suddenly, Tolkien had a Mass said for him, and himself acted as server to the priest, a noble tribute.
He maintained that he never knew what Williams was “on” about. Tolkien was not especially fond of Williams. His electric mind kept things humming, though often when he read from his works, he left the assembled company scratching their heads. It was Williams, for instance, who rushed in and out of the room at The Eagle and Child fetching ale for everyone. But in an odd sense, it was often his agitated intellect, wildly fecund imagination, and sheer physical energy that moved things along.
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