Quote about Lewis

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Can anyone claify my foggy memory about a quote, I think from Barfield, to the effect that Lewis was the "most unself-concious" or something like that, person he had ever known.
Thanks,
John Watson

[Paul F. Ford]

John,

G. B. Tennyson's Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis (Middleton, CT: Wesleyan, 1989) contains nearly everything Barfield ever said about Lewis. You may be remembering Barfield's introductory essay to Jocelyn Gibb's Light on C. S. Lewis (New York: Harcourt, 1965; reprinted in Tennyson's collection) in which he says something like what you remember in paragraph sixteen.

But what you remember sounds more like Walter Hooper's statement, "Lewis struck me the most thoroughly converted man I ever met" (Preface to God in the Dock [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970], paragraph seventeen).

Paul

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