To: Walkin Man
I read the Narnia Chronicles to my then six-year-old to help her get over 9|11 (we were there as live witnesses). Opened the doors of her imagination and now she's a big-time reader, and brilliantly creative.
I always thought Eustace and Jill was a barely masked love story. Perhaps a little reflective of Lewis' life and marriage.
His notes on grief is passionate.
33 posted on
11/22/2003 4:42:03 PM PST by
lavrenti
("Tell your momma and your poppa, sometimes good guys don't wear white." The Standells)
To: lavrenti
I read the Narnia Chronicles to my then six-year-old to help her get over 9|11 (we were there as live witnesses). Opened the doors of her imagination and now she's a big-time reader, and brilliantly creative.That was a terrible thing to witness on TV, much less being there, God bless you both.
I'm glad to hear another little one has been blessed by the writings of CS Lewis, I share her love of reading too.
His good deeds continue even now, eh?
To: lavrenti
Trivia:
- "Narnia" was the name of a Roman colony in central Italy. One surviving book of Livy's History of Rome contains an amusing (to us) passage describing that "in this year the Senate sent a thousand colonists to Narnia".
- "Aslan" is Turkish for "lion".
To: lavrenti
I can't count the number of times I've given them as presents. I recently got a copy of the Narnia Chronicles by the BBC. Leant them to a young woman I work with (she has two pre-schoolers) two months later I got itr back and she went out and got a copy for her kids, they couldn't get enough of it.
In this series they actually (prepare yourself) follow the story! Talk about your radical concept.
38 posted on
11/22/2003 5:46:18 PM PST by
Valin
(We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.)
To: lavrenti
I always thought Eustace and Jill was a barely masked love story. Perhaps a little reflective of Lewis' life and marriage. Huh?!
43 posted on
11/22/2003 6:44:57 PM PST by
maxwell
(Well I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation...)
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