Cheers!
I recited that at my mother’s funeral.
We used to have late-night discussions about many things and Lewis often came into it.
About ‘93 I was fortunate to go back-stage after a Keaggy/Stonehill Concert at Point Loma and he and I discussed Lewis for about an hour. He recommended “A Man of Letters” (I think that’s the name of the book!) to me... I asked why he never plays “As the Ruin Falls” in concert... he said it was a little “too flowery” in its composition and he wanted to one day re-write it. I guess he hasn’t yet :(
The last three Narnia films have been incredible. I'm usually very disappointed when a favorite novel is put on celluloid. Wardrobe was perhaps the one film that has most closely matched the way my mind's eye saw the events of the novel as I read it. Douglas Gresham and the Lewis estate have retained a lot of control and it shows. There's one scene in Wardrobe where the Pevensies are in the professor's country estate sitting around while it rained heavily outside, and there's war news playing on the radio in the background. The person reading the news is actually Doug Gresham :-)