What is the most peculiar thing about the writing styles of the Inklings?

The Inklings use words vertically.

The Inklings tend to use words vertically, not horizontally.

They look for words not to move the reader along as quickly as possible from one word to the next horizontally. For them, each word is alive. Each word speaks through a particular sound shape – and needs to be heard.

When you “hear” the word’s speech, the curtain of the world is drawn for a seco…