Posted on 11/22/2013 6:48:42 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
November 22, 1963, the date of President Kennedy’s assassination, was also the day C.S. Lewis died. Seven years earlier he had thus described death: “The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.” The metaphor inherent in these words is striking. It comes from the world of students and pupils, but only a teacher would employ it as a metaphor for death. The words (from The Last Battle) bring down the curtain — or perhaps better, close the wardrobe door — on Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. But they also open a window into who C.S. Lewis really was.
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He was a man ever so much more important than any Kennedy could ever aspire to be.
Just got chills reading this as my daughter plays the part of Lucy tonight in her High School’s production of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe…It is opening night...
I’ve been trying to say that for years.
BFL thanks.
“I believe in God as I believe the sun has risen; not because I can see it, but because by way of it, I can see everything else.” - C.S. Lewis
His “A Grief Observed” helped me after my wife died.
Lewis was an infinitely more important man than Kennedy.
Am halfway through the old BBC version of Shadowlands. Already, I can recommend this over the Anthony Hopkins movie, even though production values are lower and less expensive.
And he wasn’t a serial adulterer, like Kennedy and Clinton, and that counts for a lot.
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His “The Inner Ring” essay is a deeply insightful look at what really matters as we operate in any organization: the natural affinity for each other of those who do a job well, who become craftsmen at their chosen field of endeavor. I use it in mentoring junior JAGs all the time.
Colonel, USAFR
No look at Lewis is complete without this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Hideous_Strength#N.I.C.E.
I certainly enjoyed his Narnia books, although they don’t hold up well next to Tolkein’s Middle Earth series, to which it is frequently compared.
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