Into the Wardrobe

Thanks, Sven. I found it. I am doing a paper proposal for a C. S. Lewis conference next March. I needed that quote but have not got around to re-reading That Hideous Strength. I will eventually do that, but to get the proposal in on time, I needed to find that section.

Thanks so much!

David

I think ‘We like weather’ is a wonderful quotation, and such a magnificent Franciscan concept.

David, if you think of his famous ‘Canticle of the Sun’ (originally known as ‘Canticle of the Creatures’—‘creature’ literally covering everything created, both animate and inanimate)—Francis sees the beauty and glory in the sun and the moon and the stars, but also in the wind and in the rain, and even in bodily death. To like ‘weather’ therefore is to appreciate all aspects of the creatures/creativity of God—wind and rain, snow, sunshine—even death. In that light, I think ‘liking weather’ is Franciscan.

Can you share more about your presentation and your choice of this particular phrase?

As a further aside, the whole structure of NICE is based on not liking or appreciating God’s creativity and creatures, of course. They dig up the wood, they tear up the college, ‘renovate’ the town—institutionalise everything. The whole countryside (and the populace) is just there to be exploited by industry and technology. The very opposite of ‘liking weather’.