Posted on 10/16/2020 8:45:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
At the beginning of “The Magician’s Nephew”, Lewis gives a tip of the hat to E. Nesbit - I’m quoting from memory, but he says something like, “Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street, and the Bastable children were hunting for treasure in the Lewisham Road.”
Mere Christianity is excellent. Have you read "The Great Divorce" yet? I think it is one of his best if not his best book (close-run thing with "That Hideous Strength". I found out not too long ago that the title of the latter is from a very obscure 16th c. poem by a Scottish author.)
Being interested in your appearance is not bad but when it becomes all consuming you have diminished yourself.
This was a time when advertisements were pushing the concept that appearance was all. What was inside was not important, surface was the only thing that mattered. This was Lewis way of telling girls that you are worth more then your flesh.
Have you read Till We Have Faces? It resonates in this time wen people are going about with covered faces.
Yes, I have. It’s a difficult work, on a lot of different levels, not as straightforward as most of Lewis’ novels. Every character is an unreliable narrator (except perhaps Psyche) and every character tells the same story, but every account is different . . . a tough read.
A multiple point of view book can be a difficult read but it also make you think about how people can witness the same event but walk away having seen something different.
Absolutely. It’s not that it’s not worthwhile - it’s that it is a more difficult read than most of Lewis’ work - excepting always his “Oxford History of English Literature in the 16th century - excepting drama” - aka the “OHEL(L)” - although he made even that dry-as-dust period entertaining. There is nothing to compare with a grade-A Lewis snark.
I think there is every hope that Susan came to Aslan's Country by another road.
If you read Tolkien's "Farmer Giles of Ham," for example, I think you'll see that it is more in Lewis' style - more jocular, gently satirical, but with truth and good at the bottom of it. And Lewis' "Til We Have Faces" is a more serious work, and written in a more elevated style that most of us associate more with Tolkien and Middle Earth.
Of course their styles are different, but I like them both.
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